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PHILADELPHIA – Bayer Corp. on Feb. 1 failed in its bid to get the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to dismiss nine Yaz/Yasmin birth control pill cases on the basis of forum non conveniens (Erika Diaz v. Bayer Corporation, et al., No. 116 EM 2011, John Gibbs II, et al. v. Bayer Corporation, et al., No. 117 [...]

The U.K.’s implementation of “no win, no fee” conditional fee arrangements has been pushed back, from October of this year to April 2013. The U.K. Ministry of Justice said the civil litigation reforms were postponed for six months to allow law firms and legal businesses more time to prepare.Visit International News View full post on [...]

The team of lawyers behind proposed class actions against the Thomas M. Cooley School of Law and New York Law School are in the process today of filing suits against 12 additional schools in courts around the country. The suits claim the schools inflated their graduate employment data. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

A federal judge has denied class certification in an antitrust case against Whole Foods Market, striking a blow to the 2008 lawsuit brought by an unhappy customer concerned about rising prices. The case is an offshoot of the FTC’s 2007 challenge to Whole Foods’ merger with former competitor Wild Oats. View full post on Law.com [...]

A federal judge has rejected motions by Evanston Insurance and its parent corporation, Markel Corp., to toss MGA Entertainment’s attempts to force them to pay its legal costs for the past two years of its battle against Mattel over copyrights to the Bratz dolls. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

Litigation over intellectual property may be something of a recession-proof practice area, as lawsuits continue to surge. Corporate Counsel takes a look at the top 10 IP litigation wins of 2011 — a list boosted by the tech sector and, specifically, by the smartphone wars. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

NEW YORK – A creditor in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding of American Airlines on Jan. 23 filed a brief arguing that the automatic stay in the bankruptcy should be lifted to allow the litigation of his pension claim against the company (In Re: AMR Corporation, No. 11-15463, Chapter 11, S.D. N.Y. Bkcy.). View full [...]

NEW ORLEANS – The federal judge in Louisiana overseeing litigation arising from the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and ensuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Jan. 20 dismissed a wellhead system manufacturer named as a defendant after its summary judgment motion went unopposed (In re: Oil Spill By The Oil [...]

WILMINGTON, Del. – Direct purchasers who sued Braintree Laboratories Inc. for engaging in sham litigation in violation of antitrust laws moved for preliminary approval of a $ 17.25 million class action settlement on Jan. 20 in federal court in Delaware (Rochester Drug Co-operative, Inc., et al. View full post on LexisNexis® Mealey’s™ Daily Legal News

NEW ORLEANS – Negligent failure-to-warn claims brought against the contractor defendants in the Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer formaldehyde products liability litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana were dismissed in an order entered Jan. 18; separate orders issued Jan. 17 and Jan. 19 severed cases for jury trials starting [...]