The state may have been partly responsible for the release of toxic chemicals at the Stringfellow Acid Pits site more than 40 years ago. But its insurers have to share in the $500 million cost of cleaning up the mess, the state supreme court ruled this week.

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.

In the lastest chapter in the bitter feud between onetime partners Huawei and Motorola, a Chicago judge took less than a day to bar Motorola from disclosing confidential Huawei information to Nokia Siemens in the planned $1.2 billion transfer of Motorola's wireless networking business.

There's nothing unusual about judges awarding attorneys' fees to the winning side in certain types of cases. But in a bitter dispute between the Internet entrepreneur Halsey Minor and the auction house Christie's, both sides have been awarded fees--and Christie's has gotten a lot more for its Skadden counsel, even though, by most standards, it lost the trial.

With the $3 billion civil and criminal deals reached Monday with GlaxoSmithKline, it's shaping up to be an incredible year for health care settlements under the False Claims Act.