Law

  • EBay and Sotheby’s can recoup attorneys’ fees from a group of artists who unsuccessfully sued the companies under a California state royalties law, even though the Ninth Circuit had previously declared that law largely unenforceable, the federal appeals court said Monday in a published order… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday said a federal district judge had been right to allow prosecutors to modify a criminal indictment against a Florida doctor who was later convicted of smuggling medical products into the U.S. as part of a health care fraud scheme… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • Twitter Inc. and BlackBerry Ltd. are offering multimedia messaging services with features that infringe a patent held by Rainey Circuit LLC, the Texas-based company has alleged in two separate federal lawsuits… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • Kansas City-based grocery company Associated Wholesale Grocers Inc. asked a federal court Thursday to keep alive its price-fixing suit against Bumble Bee Foods’ former CEO, challenging the executive’s bid to toss the case over questions of jurisdiction and timeliness… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • A Campbell Soup Co. shareholder has hit the food company with a proposed class action in New Jersey federal court, alleging executives misled investors about the financial prospects of the fresh products division, causing stock prices to slide as the unit suffered tens of millions of dollars in losses… Read this piece in its entirety…

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