Verdicts

Each year, we comb our archives and accept submissions from law firms and other sources to compile this review of the big cases of the year.

Legal reporter Chad Halcom searched legal records and talked with a myriad of sources to compile this list of a dozen significant cases from 2011.

The cases range from automotive supply chain price-fixing (story below) to intellecutal property and employee compensation disputes.

February 19, 2012

Auto supplier price fixing

02/19/12 • Venue: U.S. District Court, Detroit; Judge George Steeh

02/19/12 • Venue: U.S. District Court, Detroit; Judge David Lawson

02/19/12 • Venue: U.S. District Court; Judge John Corbett O'Meara

02/19/12 • Venue: U.S. District Court, Detroit; Judge Stephen Murphy

02/19/12 • Venue: Wayne County Circuit Court; Judge Jeanne Stempien

02/19/12 • Venue: Settled out of court

02/19/12 • Venue: Oakland County Circuit Court; Judge Wendy Potts

02/19/12 • Venue: U.S. District Court, Detroit; Judge Paul Borman

02/19/12 • Venue: Oakland County Circuit Court; Judge Leo Bowman

02/19/12 • Venue: Oakland County Circuit Court

02/19/12 Venue: Wayne County Circuit Court; Judge Michael Sapala

02/19/12 • Venue: U.S. District Court; Judge Lawrence Zatkoff

02/19/12 Venue: Oakland County Circuit Court; Judge Rudy Nichols

02/19/12 • Venue: Assigned to U.S. District Court, Detroit; Judge Paul Borman, by order of the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation

02/19/12 • Venue: Wayne County Circuit Court; later transferred to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for arbitration.

02/19/12 Venue: Macomb County Circuit Court; Judge Edward Servitto

02/19/12 Venue: U.S. District Court, Detroit; Judge David Lawson

02/19/12 Venue: U.S. Department of Justice

02/19/12 • Venue: Wayne County Circuit Court; Judge Wendy Baxter