Litigation Roundup: Divided Panel Vacates Magistrate Referral in $125M Port Dispute 

In this edition of Litigation Roundup, we offer details on two high-dollar disputes involving the leasing of railcars, the former chief financial officer of a Dallas nonprofit goes to prison for embezzling $2 million, and the parties that lost a patent case seeking more than $400 million in damages ask for a redo. 

Also, the Fifth Circuit agrees a referral to a magistrate judge who awarded $125 million in damages after a bench trial by consent must be undone, ruling her disclosure of a relationship with a lawyer for the winning side was “incomplete.”