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  • The stars of the 1984 mockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap” announced Tuesday that they have struck a settlement agreement with Vivendi SA subsidiary Universal Music Group Inc., letting the company exit the suit accusing it and others of withholding royalties related to the cult classic… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • Massachusetts-based Bolton Securities Corp. violated federal laws against “self-dealing” trades, racking up $325 million in unlawful transactions, in addition to failing to disclose conflicts of interest, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged in a suit filed Monday in Bay State federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • Alec Baldwin has hired Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP to handle the legal counterattack he launched on Friday against a New York man who accused the anger-prone actor of assaulting him last year over a parking spot… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • A California federal judge who had previously found internet call-routing patents held by Voip-Pal.com Inc. too generalized and abstract made a similar ruling on Friday in two cases in which the communications company had accused Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. of infringing similar intellectual property… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • A woman who sued Starbucks after she was burned by hot tea lost her lawsuit against the Seattle-based chain when a Pennsylvania federal magistrate judge on Thursday said she hadn’t put forth any evidence showing her injuries were Starbucks’ fault… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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