The decision by the 9th Circuit is a fresh setback for consumers, who have seen their ability to sue collectively curtailed in the past year.
WORKERS’ COMPENSATION - Pacific Operators Offshore v. Valladolid
(U.S.) - A laborer’s fatal forklift accident at an oil driller’s onshore facility is covered under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act’s extension of workers’ compensation benefits for longshoremen because he mostly worked on the company’s offshore oil platform, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.
TRADEMARKS - Electronic Arts Inc. v. Textron Inc.
(N.D. Cal.) - Electronic Arts Inc. argues that it should be allowed to continue using real-life depictions of helicopters made by Textron Inc.’s Bell division in its Battlefield 3 video game because the use of the images are protected under the First Amendment.
ANTITRUST – In re NCAA Student-Athlete Name & Likeness Licensing Litig.
(C.D. Cal.) - Basketball hall of famers Bill Russell and Oscar Robertson and other former collegiate athletes are demanding that Fox Broadcasting Co. turn over its contracts with the NCAA in their antitrust lawsuit over the use of athletes’ likenesses on broadcasts and video games.
An appeals court asked for help in deciding whether to revive a case by a police officer against Burger King over a Whopper he says a worker spat on.
Jeffrey Smith leaves Cravath, Swaine & Moore for Crowell & Moring; David Klein joins SNR Denton.
A Washington state man claims that Symantec distributes trial versions of its products that report harmful errors exist regardless of the real condition of the machine.
The U.S. government embarked on a rare criminal trial against a publicly traded company, AU Optronics, as lawyers delivered opening statements in a San Francisco federal court.
The struggling photo giant sued accusing the companies of infringing on four patents related to mobile camera phones.
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