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  • Valassis Communications Inc. can continue a $1.1 billion antitrust action against News Corp. over alleged anticompetitive activities in the in-store promotion sector, but it can’t pursue claims that its rival’s pricing practices were predatory, a New York federal judge ruled Thursday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.    

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  • Johnson & Johnson is cooperating with government probes in which the pharmaceutical giant has been asked to turn over documents related to allegations that some of its baby powder products were contaminated with asbestos, the company said Wednesday in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • Ford Motor Co. and AT&T Corp. won’t face trial in a case brought by a woman alleging that the car maker and the telecom giant were among a vast group of companies that contributed to her husband’s death from asbestos-related mesothelioma, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Wednesday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • The estate of Massimo Vignelli and his wife accused one of the late Italian designer’s former employees of publishing a book that uses Vignelli’s name and work without permission, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in New York federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • The America Invents Act doesn’t stop patent challengers who won at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board from pursuing their winning arguments in court, and blocking that judicial path would lead to “absurd results,” a group of generic-drug makers told the Federal Circuit on Tuesday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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