Partner Kathleen Sullivan preserved a major lower court victory for Entergy Corp., persuading the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that federal regulations preempt moves by Vermont's legislature to close the state's only nuclear power plant.

After watching lawyers for Ventas and HCP slug it out in court for nearly three weeks, a Kentucky federal district court jury ordered HCP to fork over $101 million for interfering with Ventas's planned acquisition of a Canadian real estate investment trust.

Six years ago the HMO Kaiser sued Abbott for allegedly blocking generic drugmakers from introducing a cheaper version of Abbott's hypertension drug. After a favorable jury verdict and summary judgment ruling, Abbott seemed to be off the hook. But then the Ninth Circuit got involved.

Jon Hacker is a well-known figure at the high court, and he's now getting his first chance to argue a case before justices in the so-called "Zicam case."

In a 6-5 en banc decision handed down on Friday, the Federal Circuit revived two patent infringement cases—one brought by Akamai Technologies Inc. against Limelight Networks Inc., and another by McKesson Corp. against Epic Systems Corp. More significantly, the court refined the theory of "induced infringement," ruling that inducement applies even when the steps recited in the patented method were performed by multiple parties.