Morning Docket: 12.16.09

* Microsoft reaches a settlement with European antitrust regulators, agreeing to give Windows users a choice of browsers. [New York Times]
* Garth Brooks is suing his hometown hospital for half a mill. (If we had knowledge of any of his music, we’d engage in some wordplay here based on an album or song title, but we don’t.) [CNN]
* First the government bailed out Citigroup; now it’s giving Citi some nice tax breaks. [Washington Post]
* The bankruptcy bar: it’s all about the benjamins, baby. Here’s a list of prominent practitioners and how much they charge, gleaned from public filings. [Am Law Daily]
* A federal judge sets aside the guilty plea of Broadcom co-founder Henry Samueli. [Blooomberg]
* Raj Rajaratnam and Danielle Chiesi, accused of involvement in the notorious Galleon Group insider trading ring, have been indicted by a federal grand jury. [New York Times]
* Congratulations to McGuireWoods, which led a defense team that just won a jury trial in a patent infringement case involving wireless aircards (which are great, by the way; if you travel a lot, get yourself one). [Richmond Times-Dispatch]

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