A consolidated antitrust class action against four Chinese vitamin C makers case got smaller--but no less interesting--when one of the defendants agreed to a $10.5 million settlement. "This is the first shoe to drop in a Chinese cartel case, and it's a $10 million shoe," said William Isaacson of Boies Schiller, co-lead counsel for the direct purchaser class.

With a complete defense verdict for Google in a $600 million infringement case, Verhoeven proved once again that East Texas juries can be tamed.

In a jurisdictional muddle, a New Orleans judge ruled that Allan Kanner's client can't proceed with claims against Allstate because another whistleblower got there first--even though the other whistleblower's claims were not only different, but were also voluntarily dismissed.

Once again, a federal judge in Philadelphia has clipped the wings of some of the country's largest egg producers hoping to hatch their way out of multidistrict class action litigation over alleged price-fixing for eggs and egg products. And this time the judge got just a few dozen words into her decision before cracking her first chicken joke.