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...regarding executive pay that will be heard by the Supreme Court next week. In the case, Jones et al. v. Harris Associates, several mutual fund investors charged that the fund had overpaid its advisors. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago dismissed a full court rehearing of the lawsuit in May 2008. Law professors John C. Coates, Robert C. Clark, Allen Ferrell, and J. Mark Ramseyer signed an amicus brief earlier this month in support of the defendant, Harris Associates, along with more than 20 other corporate law and finance professors. According to Coates, the brief agrees with Seventh...
...judicial farce.' CHARLES JAMES, a Chevron executive, on the $27 billion lawsuit Ecuadoran plaintiffs filed against the oil giant for allegedly causing environmental damage in the Amazon. The company has released recordings that reportedly implicate government officials in a bribery scheme and suggest that the case's judge has decided he will rule against Chevron...
...Giornale, for accusing him of drifting leftward. "Enough already. It's time for a new approach," Fini told reporters in the central city of Gubbio. "I won't renounce my ideas, and I say 'No' to groupthink." And just on Monday, Sept. 14, Fini said he was considering a lawsuit against Il Giornale for an article that referred to his links to a "red light" scandal in 2000. (Read "Berlusconi and the Girl: No Spice, Thank...
Ashcroft, former Attorney General John • lawsuit can be filed against, according to a federal-appeals-court ruling, for the "repugnant" evidence-free preventive detention of American Muslims...
...doping investigations. But that assertion contradicts claims by Athletics South Africa president Leonard Chuene, who has insisted that no gender tests were carried out on Semenya prior to her departure for Berlin. (IAAF spokesman Nick Davies could not be reached for comment on the South African government's possible lawsuit against the federation over human rights abuses...