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News Corporations and securities brief ~ SEC charges three in stock tip fax scam
Corporations and securities brief ~ SEC charges three in stock tip fax scam
James Murdock
July 18, 2005 07:04:00 pm

Leading Monday's securities and corporations law news, the SEC has charged three men with conning investors in a microcap scam. The scam involved sending faxes that were designed to look like a confidential stock tip from a...

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News Corporations and securities brief ~ Sprint-Nextel merger approved, but faces more litigation
Corporations and securities brief ~ Sprint-Nextel merger approved, but faces more litigation
James Murdock
July 13, 2005 04:26:00 pm

Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities news, shareholders of Sprint and Nextel approved Sprint's $36 billion bid to purchase Nextel. In a joint press release, the companies announced that 97 percent of voters approved of the...

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News Corporations and securities brief ~ American Express settles lawsuit with New Hampshire
Corporations and securities brief ~ American Express settles lawsuit with New Hampshire
James Murdock
July 12, 2005 04:32:00 pm

Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, American Express has settled a lawsuit with New Hampshire and residents of the state. The state said it sued after learning the company had pressured agents in New Hampshire to...

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News Corporations and securities brief ~ Sprint to purchase affiliate Unwired, settle lawsuit
Corporations and securities brief ~ Sprint to purchase affiliate Unwired, settle lawsuit
James Murdock
July 11, 2005 06:31:00 pm

Leading Monday's corporations and securities law news, Sprint has said it will buy its affiliate and litigant, US Unwired . In a press release, Sprint said it will purchase its Louisiana-based distributor for $1.3 billion and...

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News Corporations and securities brief ~ SEC unit investigating Deloitte
Corporations and securities brief ~ SEC unit investigating Deloitte
James Murdock
July 8, 2005 08:28:00 pm

Leading Friday's corporations and securities law news, Big Four accounting firm Deloitte is under investigation by federal regulators. Bloomberg News is reporting that the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board accidentally released a private...

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News Corporations and securities brief ~ Spitzer to retry fraud charges against Sihpol
Corporations and securities brief ~ Spitzer to retry fraud charges against Sihpol
James Murdock
July 7, 2005 05:19:00 pm

Leading Thursday's corporations and securities law news, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer will retry ex-Bank of America broker Theodore Sihpol. Sihpol was acquitted on 29 counts of fraud-related charges last month , but the jury...

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News Corporations and securities brief ~ Nextel sued by affiliate over Sprint merger
Corporations and securities brief ~ Nextel sued by affiliate over Sprint merger
James Murdock
July 6, 2005 06:06:00 pm

Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, communications Nextel is being sued by a distributing affiliate, Nextel Partners, that claims it was not given input into Nextel's impending merger with Sprint and wants to go to arbitration....

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News Corporations and securities brief ~ SEC to pursue civil suit against Scrushy
Corporations and securities brief ~ SEC to pursue civil suit against Scrushy
James Murdock
July 5, 2005 06:58:00 pm

Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) spokesman said today that the agency still plans to pursue a $785 million civil suit against former HealthSouth Corp. CEO Richard Scrushy...

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News Corporations and securities brief ~ Cox formally nominated as SEC Chairman
Corporations and securities brief ~ Cox formally nominated as SEC Chairman
James Murdock
July 1, 2005 07:57:00 pm

Leading Friday's corporations and securities news, the White House Friday formally filed papers with the Senate for the nomination of Congressman Christopher Cox as new Chairman of the SEC. Cox, a Republican from California, was informally tabbed...

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News Corporations and securities brief ~ Glassman named as acting SEC Chair
Corporations and securities brief ~ Glassman named as acting SEC Chair
James Murdock
June 30, 2005 07:04:00 pm

Leading Thursday's corporations and securities law news, as expected, SEC Chairman William Donaldson officially stepped down today, having announced his resignation earlier this month . Donaldson steered the regulatory agency for the last two-plus years through...

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India sues Union Carbide over Bhopal industrial disaster

On April 8, 1985, the government of India filed a lawsuit against the Union Carbide Corporation for the Bhopal industrial disaster in which forty-two tons of methyl isocyanate gas was released from the pesticide plant of a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The disaster initially killed 2,000 Indians and injured another 200,000. These injuries led to another 16,000 deaths as a result of exposure to the gas. In 1989, the parties reached a $470 million settlement out of court. Learn more about the Bhopal industrial disaster from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the government of Madhya Pradesh.

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