NEW ORLEANS - One of the major manufacturers of Chinese drywall named as a defendant in the federal Chinese drywall multidistrict litigation agreed Nov. 2 to a one-time waiver of its right to be served with process under international law, the judge overseeing the consolidated cases said in a pretrial order (In re: Chinese-Manufactured Drywall Products Liability Litigation, No. 2:09md02047, E.D. La.). From Mealey's Litigation Report: Construction Defects

SAN JOSE, Calif. - A California federal judge on Oct. 29 granted a renewed motion for default judgment by Facebook Inc. against so-called "spam king" Sanford Wallace for violations of the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act and California Business and Professions Code Section 22948, awarding more than $711 million to the popular social networking Web site (Facebook Inc. v. Sanford Wallace, et al., No. 5:09-cv-00798-JF, N.D. Calif.). From Mealey's Litigation Report: Cyber Tech & E-Commerce