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...judge has ordered the case to go to trial as soon as next February. The SEC could instead try to strike a new settlement that satisfies the judge, but based on Rakoff's ruling, law professor John Coffee, who teaches a class with Rakoff at Columbia, says it is unlikely the judge would accept a substitute settlement that doesn't name any individual executives. Lewis, as the chief executive of the bank, is an obvious target. The SEC has yet to say whether it plans to pursue charges against Lewis or any other executive at Bank of America...
...figures.“Inherent Vice” is a typically Pynchonian take on the detective genre, starring Larry “Doc” Sportello as a sandal-wearing, beach-dwelling, pot-smoking Private Eye. The paranoiac narrative—situated historically around the 1970 Manson Family murder trial and geographically around the fictional Gordita Beach on the California coast—begins when an old flame named Shasta Fay approaches Doc with a vaguely defined mission: to protect her current boyfriend, real-estate heavyweight Mickey Wolfmann, from the shadowy forces trying to put him on ice.And then...
...threats—as the United States sits on the Security Council, which decides whether certain cases will be brought to the world court, it would strongly hesitate to consent to a case against Israel. This case, then, is not something that would likely ever be brought to international trial, and threatening such grave consequences is extremely counterproductive when the issues at hand deserve much more rationality...
...come easily. On Wednesday, Sept. 15, he became the country's 60th Prime Minister and only the fourth since 1955 from a party other than the long-ensconced Liberal Democrats (LDP). At his first presser since officially assuming the post, he asked the Japanese people for patience. "Through trial and error, we may make mistakes," he said. "But I would like the Japanese people to be gentle with us." He continued, "This is an encounter with the unknown, and we're embarking on a trip that we've never experienced." His Cabinet appointments immediately received praise. But a big question...
...question was set to go to trial in Federal District Court last week, but the matter was delayed at the last moment while the two sides explored a settlement. The city's law department declined to comment on the case...