In a securities class action against IndyMac and underwriters, the panel held that the tolling rule established by the U.S. Supreme Court in American Pipe does not apply to the statute of repose.

Goldman Sachs has endured a long losing streak in a sexual discrimination class action brought by three former female employees back in 2010. But the bank's lawyers at Paul Hastings and Sullivan & Cromwell finally caught a break Thursday in a key decision for Title VII defendants.

We wish all beauty contests would be run this way. Florida has just released plaintiffs firms' responses to its request for proposals. They're chock-a-block with competitive intelligence.

The First Circuit affirmed a $142 million verdict, revived class certification, and reinstated racketeering and state law claims in a trio of cases involving Pfizer's off-label marketing of Neurontin. The drug company relied on Skadden and Quinn Emanuel for the appeals.

On Wednesday lawyers for LG at Munger Tolles and Paul Hastings asked U.S. District Judge Susan Illston to scrap her plans for a bifurcated May trial in the five-year-old MDL, explaining that with two new settlements last week, LG and Toshiba are the only defendants left. The judge rejected that argument at a hearing on Wednesday, opting to move forward with the trial as planned.

Judge Richard Posner isn't going to budge in the war over class certification. The judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld his grant of class certification in two class actions brought by owners of allegedly defective Whirlpool washing machines sold by Sears, Roebuck & Co.--even though the U.S. Supreme Court told him to reconsider.

Since the Supreme Court denied cert in March in federal antitrust litigation over a $400 million Bayer settlement that kept Barr Labs from selling a Cipro knock-off, plaintiffs lawyers have pinned their hopes on state court litigation over the deal. Now those hopes have been considerably dimmed.

Intuit Inc., Lucasfilm and Pixar will pay a total of $20 million to settle a class action on behalf of former employees who claim the companies illegally suppressed salaries by striking pacts with other high-tech businesses not to raid each other's ranks.

Ties to U.S. plaintiffs firms may be valuable to Canadian firms pressing securities class action claims north of the border, but such relationships may also carry risks. In a decision appointing firms to lead a shareholder class action against Sino-Forest Corp., a judge in Ontario explored whether the Toronto firm Kim Orr should be disqualified from the bidding because of the firm's prominent ties with Milberg.

Plaintiffs appear to be in the driver's seat in two big privacy class actions against Google.