Mike LaSusa

  • U.S. Rep. Duncan D. Hunter plans to plead guilty in a corruption case accusing him of misusing more than a quarter-million dollars in campaign funds, one of his lawyers told Law360 on Monday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • A Seventh Circuit appeals panel on Wednesday pared back a $3 million punitive damages award won by a woman who claimed a mortgage servicer had mishandled her account, with the judges calling the award “excessive” but not letting the company off the hook completely… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • Massachusetts-based iRobot Corp., the maker of the Roomba line of robotic vacuum cleaners, has lost a bid to block its rival SharkNinja from selling a competing product while a patent infringement case plays out in Bay State federal court, SharkNinja said Tuesday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • The trustee of bankrupt Lyondell Chemical Co. has accused Brown Rudnick LLP of bungling the trust’s attempt to claw back $300 million in credit line repayments from private equity mogul Leonard Blavatnik, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • The Los Angeles-area Bel-Air Bay Club will have to pay $12 million to the mother of a real estate broker and philanthropist who experienced heat exhaustion at the oceanfront facility and later died, allegedly due to the negligence of the club and its employees, a jury found on Monday… Read this piece in its entirety…

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