A California judge took after Google’s lawyers Tuesday for breaking rules aimed at streamlining patent-marking issues at trial. The judge even threatened to take away a key Google defense: the argument that Oracle didn’t mark, or provide notification of, some patents in the suit, a position aimed at limiting exposure for past damages.

A 2nd Circuit panel considering a 9/11 widower’s wrongful death suit against Afghanistan found that the suit fell under a non-terrorism exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. Will the decision allow Cozen O’Connor to revive its own 9/11 suit against Saudi Arabia?

Monoline insurer Assured Guaranty sued Credit Suisse this week over $1.8 billion in mortgage securitizations that Assured insured before the subprime bubble burst.

Just one business day after removing to federal court the suit over Bank of America’s $8.5 billion mortgage-backed securities settlement, attorney David Grais dropped the latest bombshell in the case, filing a notice of objection to the settlement on behalf of the FDIC.

Just days before the deadline for investors to file objections in New York state court to a proposed $8.5 billion settlement over mortgage-backed securities, Grais & Ellsworth has removed the suit to federal court on behalf of disgruntled Countrywide investors.