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Federal court rules Countrywide shareholder suit can go forward
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May 16, 2008 03:44:00 pm

A federal judge ruled this week that a shareholder derivative lawsuit brought against the directors and officers of mortgage lender Countrywide Financial for misrepresenting its financial condition could proceed. The court held that the plaintiffs,...

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The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court order denying an injunction against a US Forest Service plan to allow commercial logging in the Plumas National Forest ...

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May 16, 2008 10:20:00 am

Convicted Kosovo Albanian war criminal Haradin Bala has been transferred to a prison in France to serve out the rest of his 13-year sentence , the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official...

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May 15, 2008 12:37:00 pm

Entertainment console and video game manufacturer Nintendo of America, Inc. was ordered to pay $21 million Wednesday to Anascape, Ltd., a small Texas video game company after losing a jury verdict in a patent infringement lawsuit concerning...

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David Hanna
May 14, 2008 10:23:00 am

Ecuador's election court announced Wednesday that a two-year suspension from politics for former Ecuadorian President Lucio Gutierrez, had formally come to an end Sunday, leaving him free to run for...

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    UK parliament rejected J.S. Mill's proposal to give women the vote

    On May 20, 1867, the British Parliament rejected by 196-73 an amendment to the 1867 Reform Act presented by John Stuart Mill that would have permitted women to vote. Review Mill's 1869 work The Subjection of Women.

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