The regular appeals court handle all manner of complex subjects antitrust, copyright, commercial litigation, and so forth.

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Victoria Pynchon is an attorney who practiced commercial litigation for 25 years.

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Justice Sotomayor came to the district court from a law firm where she was a partner focused on complex commercial litigation, gaining insight in the workings of a global economy.

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The settlement terminates credit default swaps Morgan Stanley purchased from MBIA to protect holdings of commercial mortgage-backed securities and resolves the pending litigation between the two and will see an undisclosed cash payment from the bond insurer to the bank.

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He is both a commercial and philanthropic powerhouse with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake by way of future litigation, as well as potential fan and donor abandonment.

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