Word: lawsuits
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...stage for a man once wined, dined and courted by congressional leaders and Presidents - nearly all Republican - and backed by a large lobbying apparatus in Washington. He will appear not as a genius of finance but as the deposed chairman of a defamed colossus who still faces a civil lawsuit by the New York attorney general's office over accounting issues...
...Harvard University wrongly and unlawfully interfered with Ms. Mack’s contractual and advantageous relations with Harvard Management Company.” He further suggested that they contact him as soon as possible to explore informal resolutions to the incident if they wished to avoid a lawsuit...
...Environmentalists are insisting that one of the conditions of continuing federal assistance to the automakers is that they withdraw their support for the federal lawsuit filed by the Alliance for Automobile Manufactures in California, which up until now has been supported by both domestic and foreign carmakers...
...automakers haven't killed the lawsuit. But they are supporting the Obama Administration's "cap and trade" initiative, which is designed to curb both the use of energy and greenhouse-gas emissions across the entire economy. For carmakers, such legislation would be mostly neutral because they earn credit for making electric vehicles and could spend it on cars that emit too much CO2. GM now notes that one-third of the Cadillac Escalades it sell are hybrids, so it would have plenty of currency. Of course, at this point Detroit is hoping for anything that doesn't have California...
...imprisonment. "He was punished for sharing a food parcel, and he was denied leave for refusing to participate in some kind of prison sewing group. It's just completely ridiculous," said Lokshina. She pointed out that the only good news for Khodorkovsky was a recent dismissal of a lawsuit where a cellmate had accused him of sexual assault. "This was also ludicrous...