http://www.lexisnexis.com/community/portalLexisNexis Communitieshttp://www.lexisnexis.com/terms/copyright.aspxhttp://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332690&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332690&AppID=1NEW YORK - The U.S. trustee in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of AMR Corp., the parent company of American Airlines Inc., on May 24 filed a brief objecting to the company's motion seeking approval of its disclosure statement on grounds that it violates the Bankruptcy Code (In Re: AMR Corporation, No. 11-15463, Chapter 11, S.D. N.Y. Bkcy.). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 16:36:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332689&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332689&AppID=1DETROIT - Because a plaintiff's complaint for patent infringement complies with the requirements of Form 18 of the Appendix of Forms to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a Michigan federal judge on May 22 denied a motion for dismissal (Burroughs Inc. v. Panini North America Inc., No. 12-14804, E.D. Mich.). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 16:36:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332688&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332688&AppID=1PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Although it came two years after the initiation of the action, an asbestos plaintiff was on notice of the potential for Crane Co. to raise the government contractor defense and will not be prejudiced by it, a Rhode Island judge held May 22 (Rosie K. Sweredoski, et al. v. Alfa Laval Inc., et al., No. PC 2011-1544, R.I. Super., Providence Plantation; 2013 R.I. Super. LEXIS 94). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 16:36:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332687&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332687&AppID=1LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Kentucky federal judge on May 22 denied class certification in a fraud lawsuit between insurance agents and an insurance agency regarding withheld commissions on sold Medicare Advantage plans (Harold David Cowden, et al. v. Parker & Associates Inc., et al., No. 09-323, E.D. Ky.; 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72253). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 16:36:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332686&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332686&AppID=1WAUSAU, Wis. - No coverage exists for a lawsuits seeking damages as a result of an insured's decision to abandon a dam because the underlying complaint does not allege an occurrence or a wrongful act as required by the policies at issue, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals said May 21 (Loren Laufman, et al. v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Co., No. 2012AP2116, Wis. App.; 2013 Wisc. App. LEXIS 431). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 16:36:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332685&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332685&AppID=1BOISE, Idaho - In a unanimous opinion on May 22. The Idaho Supreme Court found that a homeowner's water damage claims were not covered under his insurance policy in light of a "standing water" policy exclusion (Roger Rizzo, et al. v. State Farm Insurance Co., No. 39611, Idaho Supreme; 2013 Ida. LEXIS 159). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 16:36:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332684&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332684&AppID=1BOSTON - A trial court did not err in dismissing an insured's complaint against its insurer for failure to state a claim because the insured failed to prove that a pro-rata allocation method should not be applied to the asbestos coverage dispute, the Massachusetts Appeals Court said May 22 (New England Insulation Co. Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., No. 11-P-1617, Mass. App.; 2013 Mass. App. LEXIS 87). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 16:36:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332600&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332600&AppID=1WILMINGTON, Del. - A Delaware vice chancellor denied a motion to dismiss a shareholder derivative suit on May 21, holding that presuit demand upon the company's board would have been futile (In re China Agritech, Inc. Shareholder Derivative Litigation, No. 7163-VCL, Del. Chanc.; 2013 Del. Ch. LEXIS 132). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 14:36:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332598&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332598&AppID=1PHOENIX - A federal judge in Arizona on May 23 granted a construction company's motion to dismiss a class action complaint filed by numerous homeowners who claim their homes are plagued with construction defects (Scott Armstrong Sr., et al. v. D.R. Horton Inc., No. 13-239, D. Ariz.; 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 73183). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 14:36:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332596&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332596&AppID=1PHOENIX - An Arizona federal judge on May 22 found that an insurer acted in accordance within its rights under an indemnity agreement that a contractor executed when it obtained surety bonds to cover three construction projects, granting summary judgment in favor of the surety (Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America v. W.P. Rowland Constructors Corp., et al., No. 2:12-cv-00390, D. Ariz.; 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72592). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 14:36:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332594&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332594&AppID=1ATLANTA - A Georgia federal judge did not err in upholding a jury's verdict of trademark infringement and false designation of origin by several defendants despite an earlier summary judgment ruling that various items asserted by a plaintiff were not entitled to trade dress protection, according to a May 22 ruling by the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (B and F System Inc. v. Lloyd Leblanc, et al., No. 12-13946, 11th Cir.). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 14:35:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332592&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332592&AppID=1LOS ANGELES - The trustee in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of GGW Brands LLC, the company that makes adult videos carrying the name "Girls Gone Wild," on May 23 filed a brief contending that GGW's founder cannot seek a stay of the bankruptcy court order authorizing him to force GGW Marketing LLC - an affiliate of GGW Brands - to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy (In Re: GGW Brands LLC, No. 13-15130, Chapter 11, C.D. Calif. Bkcy.). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 14:35:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332590&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332590&AppID=1NEW YORK - A reinsurer argues in a May 22 brief in New York federal court that it should be granted judgment on the pleadings because its reinsured did not supply prompt notice of an underlying asbestos-related loss (Century Indemnity Company, as successor-in-interest to California Union Insurance Company v. Global Reinsurance Corporation of America, as successor-in-interest to Constitution Reinsurance Corporation, No. 13-cv-0797, S.D. N.Y.). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 14:35:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332588&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332588&AppID=1GRETNA, La. - A court need not consider evidence submitted in opposition to a motion but never officially admitted in court, a Louisiana appeals court held May 23 in affirming summary judgment for an asbestos defendant (John Cook, et al. v. Asbestos Corp. LTD, et al., No. 13-CA-9, La. App., 5th Cir.; 2013 La. App. LEXIS 1030). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 14:35:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332587&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332587&AppID=1LOS ANGELES - The proposed counsel for GGW Marketing LLC, an affiliate of GGW Brands LLC - the maker of adult videos carrying the title "Girls Gone Wild" - on May 22 moved in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California seeking to have its Chapter 11 case consolidated with that of GGW Brands after the trustee succeeded in forcing GGW Marketing to file for bankruptcy (In Re: GGW Marketing LLC, No. 13-23452, Chapter 11, C.D. Calif. Bkcy.). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 14:35:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332586&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332586&AppID=1NEW YORK - A couple suspected of bringing untaxed cigarettes into New York from a Native American reservation have been preliminarily enjoined against the alleged activity by a New York federal judge, who also denied their motion to dismiss in a May 21 opinion and order (The City of New York v. Robert Gordon, et al., No. 12-cv-4838, S.D. N.Y.; 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 71953). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 14:35:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332585&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332585&AppID=1NEW YORK - A U.S. commodities trading company on May 22 sued BP PLC, Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Statoil ASA, alleging that the oil companies engaged in an unlawful conspiracy to fix North Sea Brent Crude oil market prices and the prices of Brent Crude oil futures contracts by intentionally reporting inaccurate information regarding crude Brent Crude oil prices to the leading global provider of pricing for Brent Crude oil markets (Prime International Trading, Ltd. v. BP PLC, et al., No. 7:13-cv-3473-KMK, S.D. N.Y.). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 14:35:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332584&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332584&AppID=1SAN FRANCISCO - A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on May 22 ruled that a federal judge in California did not err in dismissing a consumer's federal debt-collection and credit-reporting law claims against an attorney because the consumer failed to properly plead any of his claims as statutorily required (Robert Van Zandt v. Russell Stanaland, No. 12-15479, 9th Cir.; 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 10347). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 14:35:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332582&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332582&AppID=1PORT ORCHARD, Wash. - A Washington state court jury on May 23 found that the maker of the da Vinci surgical robot did not fail to provide adequate warnings or training to a surgeon who used the device on a patient who died four years later, allegedly from complications from the surgery, the defendant said (Fred Taylor, et al. v. Intuitive Surgical Inc., No. 09-2-03136-5, Wash. Super., Kitsap Co.).anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 14:35:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332506&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332506&AppID=1GRETNA, La. - The Fifth Circuit Louisiana Court of Appeal on May 23 upheld a defense verdict in a personal injury action alleging that defectively constructed stairs caused a woman to fall and injure her ankle, calling the jury's decision "reasonable and not manifestly erroneous" (Bobbie Christine Murphy v. 1st Lake Properties Inc., et al., No. 12-CA-649, La. App., 5th Cir.; 2013 La. App. LEXIS 1023). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 11:21:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332505&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332505&AppID=1TAMPA, Fla. - A plaintiff whose decedent is not a member of the Florida tobacco class in Engle v. Liggett Group Inc. (945 So. 2d 1246 [Fla. 2006]) may not rely on the preclusive elements of that case but must set out and prove her own allegations, a Florida federal judge said in a May 21 opinion dismissing the claims without prejudice (Tammie P. Liason, et al. v. Lorillard Tobacco Company, et al., No. 8:13-cv-1115, M.D. Fla.; 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 71766). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 11:21:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332504&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332504&AppID=1NEW YORK - China Natural Gas Inc.(CNG) on May 22 moved in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York for dismissal of an involuntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition filed by a member of the company's board of directors and a group of creditors on grounds that it was improperly filed (In Re: China Natural Gas Inc., No. 13-10419, Chapter 11, S.D. N.Y. Bkcy.). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 11:21:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332503&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332503&AppID=1CHICAGO - A consumer has failed to plead either of his federal credit-reporting and debt-collection law claims against LexisNexis, a federal judge in Illinois ruled May 22 in dismissing the consumer's complaint (Rodney Smith v. LexisNexis, No. 12-8872, N.D. Ill.; 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72672). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 11:21:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332502&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332502&AppID=1NEW YORK - Target Corp., Macy's Inc. and several other retailers on May 23 sued Visa and MasterCard, alleging that the defendants exercised their market power to preclude issuing banks from competing for merchant acceptance of credit and debit cards, thereby causing the merchants to pay excessive interchange fees (Target Corporation, et al. v. Visa Inc., et al., No. 13-3477, S.D. N.Y.). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Fri, 24 May 2013 11:21:00 -0400http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332210&AppID=1http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/LitigationResourceCenter/gotopost.aspx?PostID=332210&AppID=1SAN FRANCISCO - A California federal judge on May 21 stayed a coverage action pending the completion of arbitration between insureds and insurers over construction defect claims and ordered the parties to complete arbitration (Swinerton Builders, et al. v. American Home Assurance Co., et al., No. 12-6047, N.D. Calif.; 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72089). anonymous@localhost.com (Liz Barrett)Thu, 23 May 2013 16:51:00 -0400