A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Arizona’s controversial immigration law is going forward after a federal judge threw out a challenge by Gov. Jan Brewer and others. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton has ruled that motions to dismiss filed by Brewer, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu were insufficient, The [...]
Timothy Cahill, the independent candidate for governor in Massachusetts, has filed a lawsuit accusing his former top strategists of plotting to doom his campaign by helping his running mate resign and conspiring to give damaging information to his Republican rival, The Boston Globe reported. The suit filed Thursday points to e-mails in which the strategists [...]
A U.S. federal judge said on Monday he would allow the discovery process to proceed in a lawsuit filed by Potash Corp. to fend off BHP Billiton’s $39 billion hostile takeover bid. The lawsuit, filed last week in a U.S. District Court in Chicago, alleges that BHP misrepresented material facts related to its bid for [...]
A judge refused to dismiss a securities fraud lawsuit accusing American International Group of misleading investors about its exposure to subprime mortgages, which led to a liquidity crisis and $182.3 billion of federal bailouts. Monday’s ruling by U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain allows the case to go forward and could pave the way for [...]
5:32 p.m. | Updated Hewlett-Packard and Oracle said on Monday that they have settled a lawsuit over the latter’s hiring of Mark V. Hurd, the former H.P. executive who was ousted amid a scandal involving a former actress. Under the terms of the settlement, Mr. Hurd will give up 346,030 restricted stock units granted to [...]
A divided federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit against a Boeing subsidiary for its role in ferrying terrorism suspects to foreign countries for interrogation by the CIA. Voting six to five, the judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals cited secrecy grounds in ruling for Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., The New York Times reported. [...]
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