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...threat of both civil and criminal charges. They all want to know why he seemed to be touting Enron stock and simultaneously selling his own shares--while knowing that the firm he had turned from a staid pipeline operator into an innovative energy-trading giant was imploding. Investigators for plaintiff lawyers tell TIME they are looking into allegations that investment bankers helped top executives like Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling (who is also supposed to pay a visit to Capitol Hill this week) put so-called collars on their stock options so they would not lose money, no matter...
...entire Cambridge City Council is serving as the plaintiff in the case, with the exception of Councillor Timothy P. Toomey Jr., who said that joining the suit would be a “conflict of interest” for him, since he also serves as a state representative...
...think she could be crucial, and that in federal court she might be the only plaintiff with standing,” Field wrote in an e-mail...
...alleged that the former NFL star ran a stop sign, nearly causing an accident, went verbally ballistic on him when Pattinson honked his horn and finally yanked his glasses off. Simpson said Pattinson drove up behind him, sat on his horn and "went off" when approached. Wound alleged by plaintiff? A scratched temple. Such carnage! The best evidence was Simpson's fingerprint on the glasses, and the only witnesses were Simpson's kids, who were not called to the stand. Simpson said that when he called to tell them the verdict, "they were happy. They're kids," he added. "They...
...February, with Sulzer Medica facing possible bankruptcy, one of its U.S. executives rang his buddy Joe Cunningham, a physician prominent in Texas, to brainstorm. "My basic idea," Cunningham says, "was to get somebody who thinks like a plaintiff and see how they would respond to this." He called Richard Scruggs, the Pascagoula, Miss., trial lawyer whose efforts forced big tobacco into a $246 billion settlement in 1998 and who is working with Cunningham in a crusade against managed-care companies. Though Scruggs styles himself an advocate for the little guy, he is also a sucker for big, gnarly cases...