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Los Angeles Times
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AFEW DAYS AFTER CBS Radio fired Don Imus for referring to black female basketball players at Rutgers as "nappy-headed hos," the U.S. Supreme Court winked at an even uglier racial slur. The justices on Monday declined to review a lower-court decision again..
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Washington Post
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A federal appeals court yesterday thwarted attempts by a group of Enron investors to sue investment banks over their role in the Houston energy trader's collapse, giving Wall Street a powerful weapon to defend itself against future claims.
The decision..
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Newsday
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Walt Disney World has settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the family of a 4-year-old boy who died of a heart condition after going on a ride, court records show...
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CNET
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The open source software operations of IBM, Red Hat and Novell need not fear prosecution under antitrust laws, a federal appeals court has ruled...
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BusinessWeek
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A court order against a Web site that gave away test questions could land some B-school students in hot water
More than 1,000 prospective MBA students who paid $30 to use a now-defunct Web site to get a sneak peak at live questions from the Graduate Ma..
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BusinessWeek
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Court papers show Craigslist has resisted buyout overtures from minority stakeholder eBay, and now the auction site has gone on the offensive
Online classified ad site Craigslist is none too happy with having e-commerce giant eBay (EBAY) hold a stake i..
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BBC News
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A French court has ordered that the former Societe Generale trader accused of losing billions of euros be released from custody.
Jerome Kerviel has been held in prison since 8 February, as the investigation into the 5bn euros ($7bn; �3.5bn) lost at h..
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MSNBC
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Gibson Guitar Inc has told Activision Inc that its wildly popular "Guitar Hero" video games infringe one of Gibson's patents, and Activision has asked a U.S. court to find the claim invalid.
Gibson said the games, in which players press buttons on a gu..
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BusinessWeek
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ExxonMobil has won a court battle to freeze $12 billion in assets of Petroleos de Venezuela as compensation for nationalization of projects
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has repeatedly seized assets of international oil companies operating in the c..
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MSNBC
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The Supreme Court struggled with the changed world of retirement plans Monday, trying to decide whether a worker has a right to sue to recover losses when his instructions on where to invest his retirement money are disregarded.
The justices debated th..
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CNN
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A Siberian court on Monday threw out a lawsuit filed by the BP PLC's local subsidiary over the amount of gas it produces, opening the way for regulators to pull the license to the company's giant Kovykta gas field.
Analysts have called the case symptom..
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BBC News
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A court has blocked Dutch bank ABN Amro's plan to sell its US banking business LaSalle to Bank of America for $21bn.
The decision could scupper plans by Britain's Barclays bank to take over the Netherlands' biggest bank.
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CNN
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Dutch shareholders group VEB said Thursday it will go to court to hold up the planned sale of ABN AMRO's U.S. retail bank LaSalle to Bank of America Corp. to give other banks a fair chance to make a bid for ABN AMRO.
VEB -- as well as hedge fund TCI, a..
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Washington Post
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The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that state financial regulators must step aside in a battle over who oversees subsidiaries of national banks.
The 5-3 decision is a victory for the 1,600 national banks, which say they should not have to face a dual syst..
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USA Today
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By Marcy Gordon, Associated PressWASHINGTON Echoes of the 2002 business scandals reverberate through a case before the Supreme Court that could make it tougher for shareholders to win lawsuits against public companies.
Justices are hearing arguments..
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Washington Post
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An Alexandria jury today acquitted two former America Online Inc. executives of conspiracy and securities fraud, bringing a decisive conclusion to a government probe that fell far short of its mark...
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www.macnn.com
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Bloggers and online journalists have completed their final victory lap in a protracted fight against Apple. Earlier this month, a Santa Clara County Court ordered Apple to pay the legal fees associated with the defense of subpoenas issued to online journa..
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