The latest stage in long-running litigation over alleged price-fixing in the market for LCD screens is getting underway in San Francisco this week, with Best Buy and Eastman Kodak heading to trial against a trio of LCD screen manufacturers.

Sprint Nextel's lawyers at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom have been airing the company's antitrust misgivings about the proposed AT&T acquisition since May. On Tuesday, just a week after the Department of Justice sued to block the deal, Sprint is upping the ante with a Washington, D.C., federal district court suit that it wants consolidated with the government's case.

The most successful whistleblower in FCA history has added to its luster. So far, drug pricing fraud cases initiated by the four principals of Ven-A-Care have generated more than $2 billion for state and federal governments since 2000--and more than $340 million for Ven-A-Care.

Motorola and Nokia have spent years pursuing the lion's share of a $4.8 billion judgment ordered by a federal judge in New York against Turkey's infamous Uzan family. Now, Bloomberg reports, one of Motorola's lawyers from Steptoe & Johnson thinks he's found a way to collect.

On Wednesday Dell and its lawyers at Alston & Bird won a ruling that the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvement Act doesn't bar a big chunk of Dell's price-fixing conspiracy claims against LCD makers. Motorola lost that battle in a parallel case. The big difference? It has to do with town called Round Rock.