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Barclays Ruling to Chill Wall Street
A Delaware court decision that found Barclays "secretly and selfishly manipulated" the sale of Del Monte Foods has become a shot across the bow for other Wall Street firms.
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Lawyers 'Facebook' the Jury
Facebook is increasingly being used in courts to decide who is suitable to serve on a jury, as attorneys look online for indications of sympathy -- or trouble.
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Feds End Criminal Inquiry on Mozilo
Federal prosecutors have decided to close their criminal investigation into former Countrywide Financial Corp. chief executive Angelo Mozilo without filing charges, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Rabbi Sentenced in SAC Extortion Attempt
A Brooklyn, N.Y., rabbi was sentenced to four years in prison for trying to shake down hedge-fund firm SAC Capital Advisors and its founder, Stephen A. Cohen, for $4 million.
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Plaintiff Says 'Help' Humiliated Her
A former baby sitter for the family of the author of "The Help," a best-selling novel about Southern black domestic workers and their white employers, has filed a lawsuit claiming she was humiliated by the book.
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Stanford Files $7.2 Billion Suit
Money manager R. Allen Stanford sued a group of prosecutors, SEC lawyers and FBI agents individually for $7.2 billion in damages, alleging they violated his constitutional rights as they pursued fraud charges.
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Galleon Prosecutors May Play Wiretaps at Trial
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What J.P. Morgan Knew About Madoff
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Sabre Seeks Bankruptcy Protection
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Justice Department Urges Stiffer Penalties for Insider Trading
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Galleon Prosecutors Seek Witness List
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Bankruptcy Beat
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Small Business Bankruptcies Fall 18%
Equifax's latest report on small business bankruptcy filings shows an encouraging 18% drop during the fourth quarter of 2010 compared with the same period the year before, marking the sixth quarter in a row that filings fell.
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The Daily Docket: Borders Gets OK to Shut 200 Stores
A bankruptcy judge on Thursday said Borders Group Inc. can start liquidating 200 of its 642 stores, Citadel Broadcasting Corp., fresh from bankruptcy, said it is in exclusive negotiations to sell itself to Cumulus Media Inc. in a deal valued at more than $2.4 billion and the company behind New York's famed H&H; Bagels filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Tucson Photog Seeks Fees, Threatened Suit, Over Photo of Slain Girl
Taking a picture of a picture is a common tactic for photojournalists covering breaking tragedies that involve the loss of life. Often a family member poses holding a treasured family portrait or school photo of their lost.
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Chevron Lawyers Press For US Injunction
Lawyers for Chevron Corp. pressed a U.S. judge on Friday to issue an injunction prohibiting the enforcement of $8.6 billion judgment in long-running litigation over alleged environmental damage in Ecuador's Amazon region.
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Manager Took Down Friend in Probe
They worked together as money managers at hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors. They skated together and vacationed together. And, prosecutors say, they traded on inside information together.
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What J.P. Morgan Knew About Madoff
What CEO Dimon knew about Madoff's fraud is at the heart of a lawsuit alleging that J.P. Morgan ignored or dismissed warning signs about the fraud even as it earned hundreds of millions from its relationship with the firm.
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'Poison Pill' Lives as Airgas Wins Case
A Delaware judge upheld the Airgas "poison pill," siding against Air Products & Chemicals' challenge to the takeover defense and setting the stage for a likely Delaware Supreme Court challenge.
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Insider Probe Snares Trader
Federal prosecutors unveiled criminal charges alleging that Donald Longueuil traded on insider information when he worked at hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors—and then destroyed his computer drives when he heard about the investigation.
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Banks Become Target for Patent Suits
Banking is the latest industry to be swept up in a wave of lawsuits that accuse companies of breaking the law by using expired patent numbers.
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Feds Make Record Mob Sweep
Federal agents conducted their largest ever roundup of suspected mob members and associates, charging 127 people in the Northeast with crimes ranging from execution-style slayings to illegal card games.
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Suits Drive Up Securities Cases
A spike in lawsuits against Chinese companies that have listed on U.S. exchanges contributed to a rise in securities-fraud cases in 2010, according to a new report.
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Twins' Appeal of Facebook Pact Starts
A court heard the sequel to one of the Web's most storied legal quarrels: whether Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea for the influential social-networking site.
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DeLay Gets Three Years in Prison
Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, once one of the most powerful politicians in Texas and Washington, was sentenced to three years in state prison for conspiracy to commit money laundering.
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