In Re: TD Banknorth
Jun 25, 2009
Settlement hearing.Via Bloomberg News: " April 21 (Bloomberg) -- TD Banknorth Inc. agreed to pay $50 million to settle for the second time a class-action lawsuit brought by former investors challenging the fairness of the companys buyout by Toron...
Jun 23, 2009
CVN recorded an earlier bench trial in this litigation. In this retail industry employment class action litigation proceeding, plaintiff Peter Knoch, an assistant store manager with Safeway Inc. alleged the company of misclassifying him as exempt ...
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Jun 23, 2009
SEATTLE: En banc hearing in appeal of conviction for murder of 6 Buddhist monks at a temple outside Phoenix in 1991. Alan Dershowitz served as counsel for petitioner at earlier appeals hearings before the 9th circuit.
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Jun 22, 2009
Case Overview: In each of the three cases presented for review, the Social Security Administration (SSA) denied a claim for benefits. Each claimant retained an attorney to challenge the administrative action in federal court. Each of the three...
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Smith v. Wellcare Health Plans
Jun 22, 2009
A former officer of one of the nation's largest health care services providers has told a Delaware state court that WellCare Health Plans failed to take care of the legal bills he ran up in connection with a criminal investigation of the company.I...
Jun 19, 2009
Plaintiffs were investors in the Steel Partners 2 family of funds, which included both domestic and off-shore entities, operating as part of a master feeder investment fund structure. The economic disruption of 2008 resulted in an unprecedented n...
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Jun 17, 2009
6-17 contempt hearing.From "The American Lawyer" - "At the hearing Thursday, Chaney dismissed from the bench two tort cases against Dole and Dow Chemical, ruling that Los Angeles plaintiffs lawyer Juan Dominguez and co-counsel in Nicaragua committ...
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Jun 17, 2009
Argument as to whether Jackson's original defense counsel's comments to the trial judge in support of his motion to withdraw did impermissibly taint all subsequent events and decisions in the course of Jackson's case or cause Jackson actual prejud...
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Alliance Data v. Blackstone
Jun 17, 2009
This action, brought by Alliance Data Systems Corp., is to determine whether Blackstone Partners need to make good on a $7.8 billion merger promise to a credit card processing company. This suit seeks to compel Blackstone to merge.Outcome: The Su...
Jun 17, 2009
In approving the proposed settlement, the Court of Chancery denied a motion to intervene, and overruled objections. The objectors challenged the breadth of the settlement's release, raised purported due process concerns in connection with the sett...
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Jun 17, 2009
Hearing on motion to dismiss in complex shareholder derivative litigation.Information on related federal cases:http://securities.stanford.edu/1032/MMC04_01/
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Jun 15, 2009
3-day bench trial in Tampa's business litigation division. The action arises out of a real estate sales contract for the purchase of five parcels of property representing approximately 40 acres. Sunset Cove asserted that the Santiago repudiated t...
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