Out of 10 defendants in a patent infringement case brought by Spanish antenna company Fractus, only Samsung stuck it out to face the jury. The go-it-alone strategy failed, and the verdict could cost Samsung close to $80 million in treble damages.

A judge has thrown out the verdict in the first securities class action trial tied to the financial meltdown, finding the plaintiffs’ sole expert failed to show that shareholder losses had resulted from false statements BankAtlantic made about its loan portfolio.

The law professors whose $5 million defamation verdict against West was reduced to $400,000 have won the right to take an immediate appeal. Significantly, the judge in the case agreed to reconsider the use of remittitur in reducing the verdict.

A New York federal jury has found blogger Harold “Hal” Turner guilty of threatening to kill three 7th Circuit judges.

New York Judge A. Kirke Bartley has refused to set aside a jury verdict that socialite Brooke Astor’s son, Anthony Marshall, stole from the famed philanthropist’s $132 million estate. Marshall had challenged the verdict on the ground that Bartley had failed to conduct an inquiry after receiving a jury note that one of the jurors had felt threatened during deliberations