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• Morgan Stanley Exec Charged With Hate Crime

  William Bryan Jennings, Morgan Stanley’s bond-underwriting chief in the U.S., was charged with a hate crime in the stabbing of a New York City cab driver of Middle Eastern descent over a fare.

• Kodak Seeks Bankruptcy Court Permission to Examine Apple’s Patent Claims

  Eastman Kodak Co., saying sales of some of its digital imaging patents may be disrupted, asked a bankruptcy judge for permission to investigate “the basis” of Apple Inc.’s claims that it owns some of them.

• Goldman’s Blankfein Was Prepped by U.S., Gupta’s Lawyer Says

  Lawyers for Rajat Gupta, the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director accused of passing inside tips, said prosecutors in the case conducted preparation sessions with Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein before his Feb. 24 deposition.

• Goldman, Shell, Credit Agricole, TD in Court News

  Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Wells Fargo & Co. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are among banks warned by federal regulators that they may face civil claims tied to sales of mortgage-backed securities.

• MF Global Trustee Says He’ll Allow All or Part of 12,143 Claims for Losses

  The trustee liquidating the MF Global Inc. brokerage, who is halfway through assessing commodity customers’ claims filed by Jan. 31, said he has allowed all or part of 12,143 claims filed while denying three.

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  Boozy Bono Tanked Spider-Man Meeting: Lawsuit

  Fired “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” director Julie Taymor took aim today at the musical’s producers and her former creative partners on the show, accusing them in a lawsuit of making her a scapegoat to appease investors anxious about cost-overruns and poor critical response.

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  Moody’s Must Face CDO Suit by Ex-Analyst, Judge Rules

  Moody’s Corp. must face a lawsuit over claims it slashed the pay of a former analyst and cut his duties after he questioned how his colleagues were rating collateralized debt obligations.

• Shutterfly Shares Advance on Initial Offer for Kodak’s Online-Photo Unit

  Shutterfly Inc. rose the most in more than a year after announcing an initial offer to buy Eastman Kodak Co.’s online-picture business for $23.8 million.

• MetLife Reaches Lawsuit Accord With Stuyvesant Town, Peter Cooper Tenants

  MetLife Inc. reached a “settlement in principle” over a lawsuit filed by tenants of New York City’s Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, the company said in regulatory filing.

• Hoboken Steels for Drunken Revelers Even Without St. Patrick’s Day Parade

  The parade is off and the party is on -- so on that the square-mile city of Hoboken, New Jersey, is boosting the number of portable toilets for a crush of thousands paying tipsy tribute to St. Patrick.

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