As the Gulf marked the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, a Wednesday deadline in a case brought by Transocean sparked new claims by BP, Halliburton, Cameron International, and more than 70,000 alleged spill victims.

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.

BP plc suffered a big blow on Thursday when a federal judge said it owed indemnification to Transocean for any compensatory damages that might arise from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill two years ago. Will BP now suffer the same fate with the other rig-operator at the center of the disaster, Halliburton?

The Philadelphia federal judge overseeing natiowide litigation over alleged egg price-fixing has a penchant for cracking chicken jokes in her rulings on the case. But when it comes to the issue of attorney fees for class counsel, the judge isn't fooling around.