LG suffered another loss in its suit against Whirlpool for falsely advertising that its steam dryers produced steam. After a trial last year in which it won just one count under Illinois's Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act, a federal judge has thrown out that result, too.

The judge leapt at the opportunity to weigh in on Twombly pleading standards, taking less than four weeks to write an opinion that accepted an interlocutory appeal and--without merits briefing or oral argument--concluded the trial court could give a lot of leeway to plaintiffs alleging a price-fixing conspiracy.

A Second Circuit panel ruled 2-1 Monday that Aereo's convoluted strategy for streaming live television most likely passes copyright muster, handing a big setback to the networks and a huge win to Aereo's lawyers.

Even though the Florida state court judge who oversaw last November's trial blamed the tobacco company's lawyers for tactics that prompted the jury's outsized verdict, he said he'd cut it.

Over the strenuous objections of Judge Denny Chin, the full Second Circuit on Tuesday refused to revisit broadcasters' claims that Aereo's upstart streaming TV service is a flagrant exercise in copyright infringement.

After an eight-year odyssey through the California courts, San Francisco antitrust lawyer Joseph Alioto may have finally reached the end of the line in a sprawling price-fixing case against Big Pharma.