After a hostile reception by the Justices at oral arguments, plaintiffs lawyers doubted the high court would endorse U.S. securities claims by foreign investors who bought shares of foreign companies on foreign exchanges. They just prayed the damage would be limited. Those hopes were dashed by the Court's unanimous ruling Thursday. We've got analysis from the lawyers who argued both sides at the Court.

District Judge Denny Chin U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Appearances: For Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation et al.: Arnold &a

GARY S. JACOBSON (Christopher Lovell, Imtiaz A. Siddiqui, of counsel), Lovell Stewart Halebian LLP, New York, NY; John Stoia and Bonny Sweeney, of counsel, Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbin

It took Calhoon and his partners at Baker Botts nearly a decade to get claims that Vivendi breached the terms of a multibillion deal with their client in front of a jury. But it paid off on Monday, when Calhoon won a $956 million verdict for Liberty Media Corp.