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* A lawsuit accusing Bank of America Corp.’s Robertson Stephens unit of issuing misleading research about Corvis Corp. will move forward as a class action, a federal judge has ruled.

* Bertelsmann agreed to pay $50,000 to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by music publisher Bridgeport Music Inc. over the German media conglomerate’s onetime role as an investor in the now-defunct Napster Inc. file-sharing service.