Just weeks before Nevada became the first state to go live with online poker, prominent product liability lawyers and academicians met in Indianapolis last month to discuss the chances of success for a lawsuit claiming that online gambling further promotes gambling addiction, according to Reuters.

General Electric has agreed to pay shareholder groups $40 million to settle one of the few shareholder lawsuits over 2008-financial-crisis disclosures to survive motions to dismiss, Reuters reports.

A federal judge last week ordered two law firms that represent the Mississippi Public Employees' Retirement System (MissPERS) in a securities class action lawsuit against Diamond Foods to provide details of their political contributions.

A federal appeals court in New York last week ruled that an artist who incorporates the copyrighted works of another artist without permission does not necessarily have to comment on the copyrighted work to be entitled to the protections of the “fair use” defense to copyright infringement claims.