AstraZeneca announced a judge found its Crestor patent to be valid and enforceable against several generic drug makers.
Indeed, last September, Uber's arbitration agreements were largely ruled by an appeals court to be valid and enforceable, which means that drivers now have to take any disputes to private arbitration, where the company can fight them one-on-one.
Mr. Trevino said Allstate continued to believe that the release was "valid and enforceable".
On Friday, Judge Strine ruled that IBP had not misled Tyson and that the merger agreement signed by the two companies was "valid and enforceable".
On Friday, responding to a court action by The New York Times, a state judge ruled that an agreement in July, which settled a suit the newspaper filed against the Port Authority to compel the transcripts' release, was valid and enforceable.
In a 148-page opinion, issued after the market closed, Leo E. Strine Jr., a vice chancellor of the Delaware Chancery Court, determined that the merger agreement signed by both companies was "valid and enforceable," despite Tyson's protests that hidden financial troubles at IBP were enough to scuttle the acquisition.
Responding to a court action by The New York Times, Judge Sybil R. Moses ruled that a July agreement between the newspaper and the Port Authority calling for the release of the transcripts was valid and enforceable, despite an objection by the authority, which owns the trade center site.
Even if one were to assume that the Apple patents are valid and enforceable, and that the I.T.C. identified specific Samsung products to ban, the Obama Administration should still veto the Commission's ruling because an import ban would harmful to consumers, who have benefited from the intense competition between the companies: phones and tablets have arguably gotten better and faster as a result.
A federal court in Texas had already ruled that Intergraph's patents were valid and enforceable.
