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Hedge Funds Sue Porsche For $1B (Again)
Greenlight Capital Management and Tiger Global, along with other hedge fund firms, have launched another lawsuit against Porsche, claiming that the automaker's takeover of Volkswagen cost them more than $1 billion.
Updated: 03/16/2011 10:39A
3 arrested after teen crashed vehicle when he thought police car was following him
Mike Reynolds says an officer was responding to a rollover accident Tuesday when a car driven by 18-year-old Daramus Keshaun Everett appeared to be trying to outrun him. Reynolds says the car hit a utility pole and Everett and the vehicle's two other
Updated: 03/16/2011 10:39A
Public finance campaign supporters worried about pilot program
In 2009, the US Supreme Court ruled that Justice Brent Benjamin should have recused himself from a case involving Massey Energy, whose former CEO Don Blankenship had donated more than $3 million of his own money to help Benjamin unseat incumbent
Updated: 03/16/2011 10:39A
UK unveils libel law reforms in the defense of public interest
The Guardian reports that Ken Clarke, justice secretary, published a draft bill that introduces "public interest" defense, which can be used by defendants in defamation cases and a requirement that claimants demonstrate substantial harm before suing.
Updated: 03/16/2011 10:39A
Former AC man convicted of killing six women in Ohio will face another murder
Dellmus Colvin, 51, waived extradition Tuesday and will be sent to the Atlantic County Justice Facility in Mays Landing. Donna Lee White, 27, was found dead Sept. 15, 1987, in a vacant parking lot near the old Garwood Mills site in Atlantic City.
Updated: 03/16/2011 10:39A
3 charged in Ala. after crash near police car
Mike Reynolds says an officer was responding to a rollover accident Tuesday when a car driven by 18-year-old Daramus Keshaun Everett appeared to be trying to outrun him. Reynolds says the car hit a utility pole and Everett and the vehicle's two other
Updated: 03/16/2011 10:39A
Bankruptcy: Converted Cases – Abusive Filing – Dismissal
Lindquist, the cases should be considered filed under Chapter 7 for purpose of Section 707(b)(1), so the bankruptcy courts' decisions are reversed and remanded to those courts for determinations of dismissal. Judgment is reversed and remanded.
Updated: 03/16/2011 10:39A
The nuclear situation in Japan is getting worse, experts worry about other
The explosion in the Unit 2 reactor, the third so far, and the fire in the spent fuel pond in the reactor building for Unit 41 means that this accident can no longer be viewed as a level 4 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Events (INES)
Updated: 03/16/2011 10:38A
US: Court dismisses lawsuit on Dole Food brought by Nicaraguans
The Statement of Decision formally vacates an earlier judgment and dismisses with prejudice the lawsuit brought by Nicaraguan plaintiffs claiming to have been banana workers on Dole-contracted farms in Nicaragua during the 1970s.
Updated: 03/16/2011 10:38A
US: Court dismisses lawsuit on Dole Food brought by Nicaraguans
The Statement of Decision formally vacates an earlier judgment and dismisses with prejudice the lawsuit brought by Nicaraguan plaintiffs claiming to have been banana workers on Dole-contracted farms in Nicaragua during the 1970s.
Updated: 03/16/2011 10:38A
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