PUBLISHEDArgued: January 30, 2008Before WILLIAMS, Chief Judge, SHEDD, Circuit Judge, and Liam O'GRADY, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

A Q&A we published earlier this month with Burford Group CEO Christopher Bogart sparked a testy exchange of letters to the editor from Bogart and Lisa Rickard, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform.

Decided and Entered: February 2, 2006 97744 ________________________________ PAUL F. SANTODONATO, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of SUSAN

A dozen Am Law firms failed to convince a federal judge in San Francisco to throw out claims that many of the world's leading consumer electronics companies conspired to fix prices for CD, DVD and Blu Ray recordable and rewritable drives.

On July 20 a group of Spanish funds won a $2.6 million arbitration award that cost nearly $15 million in unawarded fees, and may well be vacated by a Swedish court. Good investment? Hell yes, from the viewpoint of the oligarchs who used to control Yukos Oil Company, and fronted the fees.