A federal judge who previously gutted investor litigation over LIBOR ruled Monday that she has jurisdiction over two high-profile state-court lawsuits filed against banks that set the global benchmark interest rate.

The high court declined on Monday to take up Pfizer Inc.'s challenge to a $142 million jury verdict and continued litigation stemming from the company's off-label marketing of the epilepsy drug Neurontin.

Rejecting defense arguments made by DLA Piper, a federal judge in Brooklyn refused to dismiss a class action accusing British Airways PLC of imposing misleading fuel surcharges on members of its frequent flyer program.

After 20 years at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, plaintiffs-side antitrust pro Joseph Saveri is striking out on his own.

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein's first-ever patent case reached a likely dead end on Monday, when an appeals court ruled that Barnes & Noble Inc.'s Nook e-reader doesn't infringe patents owned by Deep9 Corporation. The ruling keeps up a recent hot streak for Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, which represented Barnes & Noble.

When antitrust lawyer Joseph Saveri left Lieff Cabraser earlier this year to found his own small firm, he held onto a price-fixing case against a group of leading chemical companies. He must be glad he did, because the litigation has now survived a key test and is moving toward trial.

For plaintiffs lawyer Joseph Saveri, the settlements mean headlines and cash flow for his new shop.