States brief ~ NC lawmakers urge General Assembly to pass gang prevention law
Leading Wednesday's states brief, North Carolina lawmakers and law enforcement officers today urged the state's General Assembly to pass legislation unveiled seven months ago to combat gang member violence in the state. The bill would create additional...
States brief ~ NJ to file lawsuit against Delaware over planned BP plant
Leading Thursday's states brief, New Jersey Acting Governor Richard J. Codey has ordered the state's Attorney General to file suit against Delaware in the US Supreme Court over British Petroleum's plans to build a...
States brief ~ WI Supreme Court allows power plant expansion
Leading Tuesday's states brief, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled today that the state's Public Service Commission acted properly in approving a coal-fired power plant in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. S.C Johnson & Son and the environmental...
Computer-chip maker AMD sues Intel for anti-trust violations
Advanced Micro Designs (AMD) announced Tuesday that it has filed a federal anti-trust lawsuit against rival chip-maker Intel . The suit was filed yesterday in US District...
Former Disney directors sue Disney board for fraud in CEO search
Former Walt Disney Company directors Roy Disney and Stanley Gold filed suit against current Disney directors including former Disney CEO Michael Eisner Monday for fraud and breach of duty in connection with the public...
The New Class Action Legislation: Denying Many Americans a Fair Day in Court
JURIST Special Guest Columnist William Lerach, senior partner of the Lerach Coughlin complex litigation firm headquartered in San Diego who has led the prosecution of hundreds of securities class and stockholder derivative actions recovering billions of dollars, says that the...
Corporations and securities brief ~ KPMG settles with SEC over Xerox charges
Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, KPMG LLP , the US unit of accounting firm KPMG International , has agreed to pay $22.5 million to settle with the SEC over charges that it allowed...
The Delaware Supreme Court Tuesday cleared Oracle Corp.'s top two executives of allegations of insider trading. In a brief two-paragraph opinion , the three-judge Supreme Court panel affirmed without commentary a 2004 Court of...
Democratic Sen. Thomas Carper , of Delaware, has placed a hold on the nomination of Stephen Johnson as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency . A spokesman for Carper said Thursday that the senator would...
Exxon Mobil v. Saudi Basic Industries, Supreme Court of the United States, March 30, 2005 [ruling that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, which prevents lower federal courts from sitting in direct review of state court decisions, is confined to cases brought by...
