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Corporate - March, 2012

149 articles

• BP, Exxon, Others Settle Lease Dispute With Alaska
• Blackstone, Bain Crafting $500M IPO For Michaels
• EPA, Texas Gas Co. Drop Row Over Well Contamination
• Sino-Forest Files Bankruptcy, $4B Suit For Ponzi Report
• Obama Finds Oil Supply Sufficient To Cover Iran Sanctions
• FDA Rebuffs BPA Ban For Now, Citing Lack Of Scientific Data
• NRC Greenlights Scana's $10B SC Nuclear Reactor Project
• MasterCard, Visa Warn Card Users After Data Breach
• US Seeks WTO Compliance Panel In Airbus Subsidies Feud
• AstraZeneca's Seroquel XR Ruled Valid And Infringed
• BP Says US Docs Could Trim Deepwater Spill Estimate
• Oracle Drops DRAM Price-Fixing Suit Against Micron
• FDA Panel Says Obesity Drugs Need Tougher Clinical Trials
• Apple Supplier To Change Its Ways After Labor Audit
• BofA Triumphs In Suit Over Handling Of $1B In MBS
• Pharmacy Groups Sue Express Scripts, Medco Over $29B Deal
• Nike Blocks Reebok From Selling Tebow Jets Jerseys
• Senate Blocks Bill To Repeal Oil Industry Tax Breaks
• Ex-Massey Boss Cops To Thwarting US Mine Safety Efforts
• Greenpeace Barred From Shell's Arctic Drilling Ships
• Judge Releases $2.2B In Argentine Assets In Default Case
• States' Medicaid Coercion Argument Sways Some Justices
• High Court Narrows Scope Of Privacy Act Damages
• Magic Johnson, Guggenheim Score Dodgers With $2B Bid
• Nike Raises Cain Over Reebok's Tebow Jets Apparel
• EU Hits Freight, Window Cartels With $340M In Fines
• Dewey Shakes Up Leadership, Refocuses On Key Practices
• High Court's Take On Health Market Key To ACA Decision
• Philips, Chunghwa Pay $37M To End CRT Price-Fixing Claims
• German Bank Can't Blame UBS In $500M CDO Suit, Court Says
• EPA Caps New Power Plant Emissions In First-Ever GHG Rule
• Gupta Attys To Grill Blankfein On DOJ Deposition Coaching
• Sony Tries To Ease EU Competition Fears Over $2.2B EMI Buy
• Judge Quashes Challenge To $7B Picower Deal In Madoff Case
• Deutsche Bank To Pay $33M To End Union Funds' RMBS Suit
• FTC Targets Data Brokers, App Makers In Privacy Report
• High Court Health Reform Battle Focuses On Tax Law
• UK Fines Coutts $14M For Shirking Client Criminal Probes
• $50M Worth Of Tobacco Appeals Won't Get High Court Hearing
• Strict 2-Year Limit For Derivative Claims Set By Supreme Court
• SEC Says Wells Fargo Stonewalling Its $60B MBS Probe
• Lehman Insider Tipster Turned Cooperator Dodges Prison
• Corzine Gave 'Direct Instructions' To Move $200M, Memo Says
• $120M Calif., NRG Settlement Creates Car-Charging Network
• Ex-SK Foods CEO Pleads Guilty To Price-Fixing
• Lockheed To Pay US $15.8M To End Overcharging Claims
• Facebook's Patent Buy Could Force Yahoo To Settle
• Media Tweets Not Enough To Win Stanford New Trial
• Thrust Of Obama's Keystone Order Could Be Limited
• Microsoft, Tivo Make Peace In DVR Patent Battle
• Senate Sends Watered-Down Insider Trading Bill To Obama
• AMR Considers Scrapping Labor Deals Amid Stalled Talks
• FedEx Delivers $3M To Settle Hiring Bias Claims
• Regulators Say Dodd-Frank Set Global Reform Agenda
• Chevron, Transocean Execs Charged Over Brazil Spill
• Obama To Speed Up US Portion Of Keystone Pipeline
• China Says Solar Panel Tariffs Will Damage Trade Relations
• High Court Defends Fair Trial Protections For Plea Deals
• High Court Ruling Weakens Favored EPA Enforcement Tool
• Ex-Carter's President Charged In $16M Securities Fraud
• Nestle, Mars, Colgate Face €35M French Antitrust Fine
• Michael Jackson Attys Get $2.5M In Secret Taping Case
• High Court Finds States Immune From FMLA Self-Care Suits
• Prometheus Blood Test Unpatentable, High Court Rules
• Stifel Pays $22.5M To Settle School Districts' CDO Suit
• Privacy, FCPA Probes Close Dun & Bradstreet China Unit
• Fed To Fine 8 More Banks Over Foreclosure Violations
• Mistrial Declared In 'Desperate Housewives' Firing Suit
• UPS's $6.8B Tie-Up With TNT To Face Antitrust Scrutiny
• Mets Owners To Pay $162M To Settle With Madoff Trustee
• JPMorgan Pays $150M To Settle Pension Funds' ERISA Claims
• 2nd Circ. Picks Lankler Atty To Rep Rakoff In SEC-Citi Case
• ITC Affirms Motorola's Win In Smartphone IP War With Apple
• Obama Admin Floats Proposals On Contraception Rules
• Gupta Says Wrong Man Is On Trial In Insider Trading Case
• High Court Vows Same-Day Audio Of Health Care Debate
• $170M Honda Gas Mileage Settlement Gets Final OK
• Jury Deadlocked In 'Desperate Housewives' Firing Case
• Rakoff Takedown Reignites Debate Over Settlement Authority
• PG&E, Contractors Pay $30M To Douse Forest Fire Suits
• Report Says DOJ Withheld Evidence During Stevens Trial
• Samsung's Bid To Ban Apple Sales Denied In The Hague
• 2nd Circ. Needles Rakoff Over $285M SEC-Citi Deal
• Aircraft Lease Co., CEO Convicted Of $50M Fraud Scheme
• Swiss Advisers Accused In $200M Offshore Tax Conspiracy
• Senate OKs $109B Transportation Bill With GOP Support
• Broadband's Kinnucan Pleads Not Guilty To Insider Trading
• Ted Stevens Prosecutor Can't Stop Airing Of Dirty Laundry
• SAIC Will Pay $500M To End CityTime Kickbacks Case
• CIT Execs Pay $75M To End Investor Row Over Subprime Risks
• Boston Scientific Award Upped To $42M In Cordis Stent IP War
• Jury Convicts AUO, 2 Execs Of LCD Price-Fixing Plot
• JPMorgan Pays Feds $45M In Loan Fraud Settlement
• AstraZeneca Sues FDA Over Generic Seroquel Labels
• US, EU Challenge China's Rare Earth Restrictions At WTO
• Toyota Can't Force Arbitration In Faulty Acceleration MDL
• Proskauer Rose Can't Put Stanford Action On Hold
• Yahoo Goes After Facebook To Defend Advertising, Privacy IP
• Banks Face Stiff Penalties Under $25B Mortgage Deal
• WTO Affirms Boeing Received Illegal Subsidies From US
• PG&E Hands San Bruno $70M To Resolve Explosion Claims
• Constellation Pays $235M To End FERC Investigation
• Dynegy Examiner Cries Fraud Over Coal Transfers
• Ex-Fulbright Partner, Wife Prison-Bound After Bilking Firm
• Wary South African Court Backs $2.4B Wal-Mart Tie-Up
• FHFA Caps Fannie, Freddie Execs' Pay
• DOE Warns Lockheed Unit Over Worker Exposure To Toxins
• Senate OKs Sending BP Oil Spill Penalties To Gulf
• Ex-Partner Goes After Troutman In $520M Malpractice Suit
• Mitsubishi Ordered To Pay GE $170M Over Wind Turbine IP
• Senate Won't Approve Keystone Pipeline Without Obama's OK
• Firm Can't Knock Down NY Rule Barring Nonlawyer Investment
• Apple Dealt Blow In Kodak IP Row
• DOJ Urges Sanctions For Attys Who Botched Stevens Case
• Judge Blocks Rival Botox Drug In Trade Secrets Trial
• Lehman Exit Vindicates Ch. 11 Process, Experts Say
• Fed. Circ. Overturns $69M CERCLA Payment To Shell, ARCO
• SIPC Sticks By Refusal To Repay Stanford Victims
• DOJ Defends $335M BofA Deal To Skeptical Sens.
• US Conducting Criminal Libor-Fixing Probe, DOJ Says
• Japan Watchdog Seeks Charges Over Olympus Fraud
• Feds Charge 5 Alleged 'Anonymous' Hackers
• Lorillard Owes $41M To Lung Cancer Widow, Jury Finds
• Lehman Emerges From Landmark Ch. 11
• Stanford Convicted For $7B Ponzi Scheme
• Google Ordered To Turn Over Docs In Smartphone Battle
• US To Appeal Ruling Nixing FDA's Cigarette Warning Labels
• Stanford Jurors Deadlocked In $7B Ponzi Case
• High Court To Probe Alien Tort Liability For Abuses Abroad
• Tepco Faces $67B Suit Over Fukushima Meltdown
• Ala. County Wins Court Approval For Largest-Ever Ch. 9
• Mets Owners Going To Trial In Madoff Clawback Case
• Restore Act Would Send More BP Dollars To Gulf States
• Ongoing Deepwater MDL Claims Could Net Feds $21B
• Deepwater's Shake-Up Of Regulatory Landscape To Continue
• Judge Barbier Earns Praise For Shrewd Handling Of BP Case
• BP Settlement Dwarfs Top Product, Toxic Tort Deals
• 5th Circ. Backs Landmark Katrina Canal Breach Ruling
• ITC Will Rethink Motorola, Microsoft Patent Call
• Ecuadorean Court Rejects Chevron Bid To Escape $18B Verdict
• NLRB Posting Rule Upheld, Challenge To Recess Picks Nixed
• Lorillard Hit With $20M Jury Verdict In Lung Cancer Suit
• BP Settles Private Oil Spill Claims For At Least $7.8B
• 7th Circ. Upholds Warrantless Search Of Cellphone
• US Wants Strict Sentence For Ex-Winston Atty In Starr Fraud
• EU Official Blasts Google For Ignoring Privacy Concerns
• Sheridan Testifies In 'Desperate Housewives' Firing Dispute
• Senate Blocks Religious Exemption To Health Coverage
• EU Kills Generics Delay Probe Of AstraZeneca, Nycomed