UK courts can grant gagging orders to companies seeking to prevent employees or others from publicising information which may be injurious to their business.
Jon Corzine, MF Global's former CEO, was asked to appear before Congress next month to explain how his futures brokerage collapsed into bankruptcy so fast.
A Strauss-Kahn lawyer said the aide was being pursued for defamation of character, and various French media entities for invasion of privacy.
ANTITRUST - Rader-Rhodenbaugh v. MacMillan Publishers Inc.
(S.D.N.Y.) – Five of the largest U.S. book publishers engineered a price-fixing scheme with Apple Inc. to ensure eBook prices remained above the retail price ceiling, forcing retailers out of the market, a class action suit alleges.
ATTORNEYS - Belin v. White
(Ala. Cir. Ct., Montgomery County) - A Birmingham attorney alleges Alabama is wrongfully denying payments to lawyers appointed by courts to represent indigent criminal defendants, infants, minors and disabled people, even though judges have approved the fees.
TRADE SECRETS - Lemko Corp. v. Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.
(Ill. Cir. Ct., Cook County) - Motorola Mobility Holdings hired away a technical employee from competitor Lemko Corp. and then tasked the employee with responsibilities that would require her to reveal Lemko’s trade secrets, according to a lawsuit filed in a Chicago court.
INSURANCE - In re Oil Spill by the Oil Rig Deepwater Horizon
(E.D. La.) - A federal judge has rejected BP's bid for access to $750 million of insurance coverage issued to oil rig owner Transocean Ltd. to pay for costs stemming from last year's record oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
ASBESTOS - Kurns et al. v. Railroad Friction Products Corp.
(U.S.) - The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument on the question of whether a federal railroad safety law preempts asbestos-injury tort claims based on state law.
The judge's daughter said the video was secretly recorded in 2004, when the judge and his now ex-wife took turns yelling and cursing at her for downloading music from an illegal web site.
Though the case was dismissed, the judge said Solow had "presented sufficient evidence of the defendants' intent to defraud" and gave him 20 days to refile the case.
The reserve amount will be released for distribution two years and 60 days after the settlement is approved by the court.
The firm was listed as counsel in approximately 21 percent of the foreclosure cases filed in New York so far in 2011.
Ex-DIA officer wants his clearance back, and to know why it was revoked.
The fine will conclude a long-running investigation into Merck's promotion of its one-time blockbuster drug, which was withdrawn from the market in 2004 after being linked to heart risks.
Eight of New York's 15 ABA-accredited law schools reported increased passage rates for first-time takers of the July 2011 bar examination compared with 2010.
U.S. judge Phyllis Hamilton granted the movie rental giant's bid to resolve all claims in its favor before trial in an antitrust class action.
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