Bonnie Eslinger

A private security firm is urging the Sixth Circuit to revive allegations that Nashville and its police department’s decision to go into the private security business amounts to unlawful monopolization, arguing there’s sufficient evidence showing city officials’ intent to stifle competition.

The Ninth Circuit wiped out BladeRoom’s $77.4 million trial verdict over Emerson Electric’s alleged use of stolen trade secrets to win a lucrative Facebook contract, finding a California district court misinterpreted the expiration date of a confidentiality agreement at the heart of the case.

Nigerian villagers have sued their lawyers at Leigh Day who negotiated a £55 million ($75 million) settlement with a Royal Dutch Shell PLC unit over oil spills, saying they were falsely told that all the money would go to their community.

An investment management firm has sued Citibank for liquidating part of its bond portfolio to satisfy a default on €224 million ($262 million) in loans, claiming the lender bought the assets at uncompetitive prices after the pandemic caused them to drop in value.

A lawyer for a Black former Commerzbank AG compliance officer told a tribunal Tuesday that the officer’s colleague subjected him to a racial stereotype about fried chicken, while the bank argued this wasn’t problematic because he’d said he liked the dish.

Generic-drug maker Mylan has argued it shouldn’t be blocked from challenging Neurim Pharmaceuticals Ltd.’s melatonin patent just because a London court previously upheld the parent patent for the insomnia medication, as the European Patent Office later invalidated it.

A judge ordered Gulf Petrochem Friday to pay security of more than SG$7.8 million ($5.8 million) in litigation brought by a Saudi Aramco subsidiary claiming it was wrongly forced to cover the costs of releasing an oil carrier impounded in Singapore.

Britain’s antitrust watchdog said Thursday that Facebook Inc. may be forced to sell online image platform Giphy Inc. after provisionally finding that the 2020 acquisition will hurt competition among social media companies.

A London judge revived a discrimination and unfair dismissal case from an ex-employee against Royal Bank of Scotland on Thursday, claiming the bank knew he was dyslexic, but didn’t accommodate his disability.

British pop star James Newman and members of the band Rudimental have beat copyright claims from a former contestant on “The Voice UK” after a judge ruled Wednesday their 2013 hit, “Waiting All Night,” didn’t copy a song she wrote years earlier.

Telecommunications giant BT accused UK Power Network of negligence in a lawsuit, saying the electricity distributor’s failings caused a 2015 fire that blazed for days beneath a London street and damaged its underground data equipment.

Ingenious Media companies behind a film finance scheme scored a win in their complex fight against Britain’s tax authority after an appeals court ruled Wednesday that they were profit-seeking businesses for tax purposes, opening the door to reviving a £64 million ($88.9 million) slice of the dispute…

A non-disclosure agreement inked by an English law firm specializing in consumer group actions can be used to prevent a rival from bringing claims against Volkswagen AG over emissions, Britain’s highest court ruled on Friday.

Mozambique urged a London judge on Monday to split up its sprawling litigation against Credit Suisse and an Abu Dhabi-based shipbuilder over a $2 billion corruption scandal to prevent the case descending into “litigation chaos.”

The son of a disgraced businessman being pursued for $16 million in legal fees that his father owes testified at trial Monday that attorneys pressured him during his wedding to sign promissory notes for the debt and that he was “terrified” of the consequences if he didn’t.

A judge said on Friday that a former executive with failed hospital operator NMC Health couldn’t withhold his defense in a $1 billion fraud case brought by a UAE bank in order to join a jurisdictional challenge by other company officials.

A Pfizer unit urged an appellate court Wednesday to overturn a decision invalidating the patent for its blockbuster Prevnar 13 pneumonia vaccine, saying a judge “misunderstood” a 2004 paper published by its workers that he said made the patent’s claimed medical invention two years later obvious.

A judge invalidated four Philip Morris patents for e-cigarette technology, siding with British American Tobacco on Wednesday and ruling that the developments were obvious in light of earlier advances.

A judge handed a two-part win to Roche in an intellectual property dispute brought by a rival insulin pump maker, saying the pharmaceutical giant’s device didn’t infringe on Insulet’s patent while invalidating the patent for being divulged by an earlier invention.

A London judge has held that the 86-year-old mother of a Taiwanese shipping magnate helped him avoid a Greek shipper’s $60 million ruling by hiding the proceeds from the sale of two villas and a private jet.