The government's case against Apple and and five of the "big six" book publishers is good news indeed for plaintiffs lawyers at Hagens Berman and Cohen Milstein as they pursue their own class action claims against the same crowd of defendants.

Plenty has changed in a decade of investor-state arbitration. But not enough.

An appellate court ruled on Thursday that the Federal Aviation Act preempts the state regulation of all airlines. The decision came in a long-running litigation in which major carriers have been accused of conspiring to keep cargo shipping rates artificially high.

Turkey's Uzan family still owes Motorola and Nokia billions of dollars from a seven-year-old judgment, but the Uzans are also still after Turkey for billions more in a pending arbitration. Can Motorola and Nokia wind up with a piece of that pie?