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More Investors Challenge $8.5 Billion BofA Deal; Grais and Others Move to Intervene for Six Federal Home Loan Banks
Publication Date: 2011-07-13
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On Wednesday the federal home loan banks--which bought their mortgage-backed certificates for $8.8 billion--filed what looks to be the biggest challenge yet to Bank of America's proposed $8.5 billion settlement with the trustee for holders of Countrywide residential mortgage-backed securities.

Bransten Puts Her Foot Down in BofA Discovery Row
Publication Date: 2012-08-23
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N.Y. Supreme Court Justice Eileen Bransten, who's overseeing MBIA's big mortgage-backed securities suit against Countrywide and Bank of America, apparently got fed up with a flurry of letters from lawyers battling over BofA's separate $8.5 billion MBS settlement.

After Winning Dismissal of Class Action, Medtronic Nevertheless Agrees to Pay $268 Million to Settle Defibrillator Suits
Publication Date: 2010-10-14
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Last year's dismissal, under the Supreme Court decision preempting product liability claims for medical devices, was considered a landmark. But Medtronic decided to pay out an average $33,000 to plaintiffs before waiting to see what the Eighth Circuit would do.

July 16, 2008 |

Hirt, plaintiffs-appellants-cross-appellees v. The Equitable Retirement Plan for Employees, Managers and Agents, defendants-appellees-cross-appellants

Cash Balance Plans Do Not Violate ERISA Ban On Age-Based Reductions in Benefit Accrual Rate
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Quinn Emanuel MBS Suits for MassMutual Survive Wall Street Full-Court Press
Publication Date: 2012-02-14
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Massachusetts Mutual and its lawyers at Quinn Emanuel crossed a major hurdle on Tuesday in a crush of litigation against banks that underwrote residential mortgage backed-securities. A federal judge in Boston largely denied motions to dismiss nine separate suits that Quinn Emanuel filed against Credit Suisse, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS, WaMu Inc., and Goldman Sachs.

In Win for Nike (and Loss for Fried Frank), SCOTUS Finds Covenant Made Trademark Litigation Moot
Publication Date: 2013-01-09
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday supported efforts by Nike Inc. to rid itself of a rival's trademark suit by promising not to pursue its own lawsuit against the competitor, Already LLC.

February 02, 2012 |

Asia Deal Digest: February 2, 2012

An Indonesian gas company brings Ashurst on board for a shipping finance deal; Latham & Watkins takes the lead on a Southeast Asian reverse merger; and Shearman & Sterling weighs in as a Chinese heavy industry giant targets Germany.
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October 15, 2003 |

Door Opened to Foreign Victims of Vitamin Price Fixing

Billions of dollars in potential awards. A new map for antitrust litigation. And what many say is a likely spot on the U.S. Supreme Court docket. Empagran v. F. Hoffman-LaRoche has it all. A class action filed by foreign vitamin buyers, the suit is the latest round in the already-epic litigation over vitamin price fixing. At the root of Empagran are important questions about who can sue and who can be sued in U.S. courts for antitrust violations.
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March 04, 2013 |

Departure of London Tax Group Doesn't Faze Dorsey's Leadership

With new managing partner Ken Cutler preparing to jet to London as part of a firmwide confidence-building tour, Dorsey & Whitney—whose gross revenue dropped for the fifth straight year in 2012—lost its tax practice Monday in the U.K. capital to local commercial litigation boutique Hage Aaronson. Nonetheless, Cutler insists the Minneapolis-based Am Law 100 firm is poised for a comeback.
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Giant Setback for FTC in Pay-to-Delay Crusade: Atlanta Judge Dismisses FTC Challenge to 'Reverse Payment' Settlement between Solvay and Generics
Publication Date: 2010-02-24
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The Federal Trade Commission is fighting a two-front battle against deals in which brand pharma makers pay generics to keep their products off the market. It seems to be making political headway, but on Tuesday the FTC took a big blow in court--partly because of some questionable litigation strategy.

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