Aereo and BarryDriller.com are facing lawsuits by broadcasters, including the Disney/ABC Television Group and Fox Broadcasting Company, that claim the streaming television services are violating U.S. copyright law.

A judge has ordered the billionaire media entrepreneur and Greek Coca-Cola bottling heir Alki David to stop calling his new online TV service BarryDriller.com, ruling that the name is misleadingly similar to that of another much bigger media mogul, Barry Diller.

The state of Vermont has struck out a second time in its two-year effort to halt the relicensing of its aging Yankee nuclear power plant.

Long-simmering litigation between Bank of America and one of the major bond insurers finally ended with a settlement this week, but observers are having a tough time making heads or tails of it. The confusion was palpable during an investor conference call with BofA CFO Bruce Thompson on Wednesday.

Bank of America announced Monday that it will pay $1.6 billion to the bond insurer MBIA Inc., bringing an end to one of the most vigorously contested disputes to grow out of the mortgage crisis.

Munger, Tolles & Olson will represent Bank of America and co-defendant Merrill Lynch, while Reed Smith will represent the various Countrywide entities named as defendants in the $10.5 billion suit that AIG and its lawyers at Quinn Emanuel filed against the bank last week over soured mortgage-backed securities.