June 19, 2015
A California federal judge on Friday awarded short-seller James Chanos $422,000 in attorneys' fees and costs associated with defending himself in resort mogul Steve Wynn's defamation suit, but said the $590,000 Chanos requested was excessive and not supported by billing records.
March 03, 2015
Short-seller James Chanos on Tuesday once again persuaded a California federal judge to kick Steve Wynn's defamation suit over Chanos' allegedly telling an invitation-only journalism conference that the casino mogul violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, striking the case under California's anti-SLAPP law.
December 17, 2014
A California federal judge on Tuesday tossed casino mogul Steve Wynn's defamation suit accusing short-seller James Chanos of saying at an invitation-only journalism conference that Wynn violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, ruling Chanos' opinions about casinos in Macau were much vaguer than that.
September 26, 2014
Steve Wynn and his casino company Wynn Resorts Ltd. hit famed short-seller James Chanos with a defamation suit Thursday in California federal court, saying Chanos knowingly lied to audience members at an invitation-only event that Wynn and his company had violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.