Coalition Of The Clueless Loses A Round In Its Pointless Telephone Excise Litigation

Editor’s Note: William Savitt is a partner in the Litigation Department of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. This post is based on a Wachtell Lipton firm memorandum by Mr. Savitt, Peter C. Hein, and Martin J.E.

Tomorrow insurance company AIG's board will consider whether or not it should sue the U.S. government for bailing out the company during the country's financial meltdown.

Editor’s Note: Joseph Warin is partner and chair of the litigation department at the Washington D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. This post is based on a Gibson Dunn client alert by Seema Gupta and Avi Weitzman. In the past two weeks, Judges Richard J. Sullivan and Shira A.

Editor’s Note: The following post comes to us from Jay B. Kasner, head of the Securities Litigation Practice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and is based on a Skadden memorandum. On February 27, 2013, in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States held in Amgen Inc. v.

A former employee of the American Humane Association who says she was fired from the HBO horse-racing drama "Luck" after complaining about abusive treatment of the animals on the set has filed a wrongful-termination suit against HBO, as well as the AHA.

BOISE, Idaho — An Uzbekistan national living in Idaho has been arrested on federal charges that he gave support, cash and other resources to help a terrorist group in his home country plan a terrorist attack. Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, is expected to make his first appearance in U.S. District Court Friday morning, one day after federal agents arrested him during a raid of his small Boise apartment.

DETROIT — Toyota Motor Corp has agreed to pay as much as US$1.4-billion to settle U.S. litigation claims that its vehicles suddenly and unintentionally accelerated, according to court filings made public Wednesday. Toyota said it will take a one-time pre-tax charge of US$1.1-billion to cover the estimated costs of the settlement.