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Court Orders Apex Oil Company to Perform $150 Million Environmental Cleanup (Popularity:  )
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Apex Oil Company Inc. has been ordered to remediate extensive soil and groundwater contamination from its former refinery operations in Hartford, Ill., the Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today. In a decision issued on July 28, 2008, Chief Judge David R. Herndon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois ordered Apex Oil Company Inc. to clean up the contamination, at an expected cost ...
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Brinker International Announces Favorable Ruling From California Court of Appeal (Popularity: )
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Brinker International, Inc. (NYSE: EAT) announced today that a California Court of Appeal has issued an opinion in Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court of San Diego County which included rulings favorable to the company related to meal and rest breaks. In its opinion, the Court found that Brinker had the obligation to "make available" meal and rest breaks to its employees, but did not have the obligation to "ensure" ...
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Sudan Denounces Ocampo's Accusations (Popularity: )
The following is being issued by the Embassy of the Republic of the Sudan: The stupefying recklessness of the ICC's Prosecutor in making his announcement on Monday where he revealed his pursuit of an arrest warrant for President Bashir on account of some obscene and preposterous charges, has not only prompted his condemnation by the Sudanese citizens affronted by these libelous accusations, but has also drawn sharp criticism from those ...
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Mark & Associates, P.C. & McGinnis, Lochridge, Kilgore, L.L.P. File Lawsuit Against Botox Maker Over Patient Deaths, Injuries (Popularity: )
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Mark & Associates, P.C. and McGinnis, Lochridge, Kilgore, L.L.P., have filed a civil lawsuit today against Botox-maker Allergan, Inc. (NYSE: AGN) for negligent failures in the design, manufacturing and marketing of the popular anti-wrinkle drug that has caused patient deaths and injuries. The suit, filed in the Superior Court of California, Orange County, (Case No. 00180033) on behalf of 15 plaintiffs from across the nation, seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive ...
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MDS Commences Arbitration against AECL over Cancelled MAPLE Project and Files $1.6 Billion Court Claim against AECL and the Government of Canada (Popularity: )
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MDS Inc. (TSX: MDS; NYSE: MDZ), a leading provider of products and services to the global life sciences markets, today announced that it has served Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) with notice of arbitration proceedings. MDS will be seeking an order to compel AECL to fulfill its contractual obligations under its 2006 interim and long-term supply agreement (ILTSA) and if not granted, seeking significant monetary damages. MDS has concurrently ...
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Responds to Attorney General's Complaint, Says Transaction Was Legal and Fully Authorized (Popularity: )
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The Michigan Attorney General announced on July 2 he was filing a lawsuit against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan challenging a capital transaction between BCBSM and Accident Fund. The Attorney General has taken the position that BCBSM is not authorized by Public Act 350 to do the transaction. We strongly disagree and, in fact, Accident Fund obtained prior regulatory approval for the transaction. BCBSM will be litigating the civil ...
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Bank of New York Flip-Flops Position on Russian Legal System (Popularity: )
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Attorneys representing the Russian Federal Customs Service said today that the Bank of New York's (NYSE: BK) comments on the Russian legal system were both condescending and inconsistent with the Bank's own prior position on the jurisdiction of the specific court in which the case involving the Federal Customs Service's US$22.5 billion claim is being heard. In the Bank of New York's June 30, 2008 press conference in Moscow, Bank ...
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Clutch Group Ranked Number One in 2008 Black Book of Outsourcing (Popularity: )
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Clutch Group, a global provider of legal support services, was rated the top Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) company worldwide in the 2008 Black Book Top Vendors survey conducted by the Brown-Wilson Group, an outsourcing consultant firm and publisher of the Black Book. In addition to its overall number one ranking, Clutch Group was named top vendor in the categories of discovery and litigation support, legal analytics and due diligence in ...
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Ranbaxy and Pfizer Settle Lipitor Litigation Worldwide (Popularity: )
Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (Ranbaxy), announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Pfizer Inc. to settle most of the patent litigation worldwide involving Atorvastatin (Lipitor), the world's most-prescribed cholesterol-lowering medicine. This decision will allow for an earlier introduction of a generic formulation that will benefit patients and many healthcare systems throughout the world. Lipitor is the world's largest selling drug with worldwide sales in 2007 of $12.7 billion. ...
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Cell Phone Litigation: Signs Promote Activity Which the City Calls 'Illegal' (Popularity: )
Plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit challenging the City's cell phone ban are now claiming that the failure to post signs notifying drivers of the law is just part of the problem. The lawsuit, filed last December, alleged that Illinois law requires municipalities, such as the City of Chicago, to post signs of local ordinances which are different from their neighboring municipalities. To date, no signs have been posted warning drivers ...
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