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The liquidators of General American won’t get to try their case against Goldman Sachs until 2009. St. Louis Circuit Judge Steven Ohmer on Tuesday set the five-week trial for Feb. 2 of that year, despite a push by plaintiffs’ attorney ...

Six states sought on Tuesday a five-year extension of an antitrust court decree imposed on Microsoft Corp., arguing that continued judicial supervision is needed to prevent the world’s largest software company from crushing challenges to its Windows operating system monopoly. ...

Pfizer Inc.’s Pharmacia & Upjohn unit doesn’t have to pay a $1.5 million award to a New Jersey woman who said she wasn’t properly warned of the cancer risk of its hormone-replacement drug Provera, a judge ruled Monday. A jury ...

New York Knicks Coach Isiah Thomas subjected the former head of business operations for the team, Anucha Browne Sanders, to obscenity-laced tirades and made numerous sexual advances, her lawyer told jurors in New York. Thomas called her names and “repeatedly ...

AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and Sprint Nextel Inc., the three biggest U.S. wireless carriers, were sued by NTP Inc. in patent-infringement complaints similar to one it used to target the BlackBerry device. NTP is a closely held licensing company ...

Paris Hilton has sued Hallmark Cards over the use of her image on this greeting card. Paris Hilton sued Hallmark Cards Inc., saying a card with a photograph of her face superimposed on a cartoon of a waitress serving food ...

Opponents of a new Missouri law that establishes new requirements for abortion clinics continued their fight in federal court Monday, claiming the state is unfairly targeting abortion providers. During a day-long hearing before U.S. District Judge Ortrie D. Smith in ...

Attorneys joining virtual law firm A virtual IP litigation boutique? That’s the idea behind XDL Group, a law firm that operates with no central office and face-to-face meetings of the members only a few times a year. Members of the ...

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Illegal scheme is largest of its kind prosecuted in U.S.

AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and Sprint Nextel Inc., the biggest U.S. wireless carriers, were sued by NTP Inc. over patent-infringement claims similar to those it made against the owner of the BlackBerry device. Closely held NTP, a technology-licensing company, ...