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...Lawyers say both rules are likely to trigger imminent challenges from corporations and Republican states that will argue the rulemaking exceeds the federal government’s constitutional powers — and expect...
...And in Citizens United vs F.E.C., it ruled that corporations had a First Amendment right to spend money on elections....
...In the event of an appeal, the case would move to the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, a conservative court representing parts of Florida, Georgia and Alabama....
...and taken over by the US government’s Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation....
...(FT) Selling an Amazon union in Alabama The ecommerce giant has launched an “aggressive” anti-union campaign as workers in Bessemer, Alabama vote on whether to organise....
...Harbert Management Corporation, the Alabama-based investment management company that sponsored Mr Falcone’s hedge fund, received a $40m fine....
...He also hired a private investigator, who visited a top prescriber in Alabama, describing it as the “epitome of a pill mill”....
...Who’s who in Richard Avedon’s ‘The Family’ First row (left to right): Richard Kleindienst, former US attorney-general, Washington, DC, July 29 1976; James Skelly Wright, circuit judge, US Court of Appeals...
...A parallel team working at the University of Alabama hopes to transplant a pig kidney into a human this year....
...Other southern states, including North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky all now host Chinese factories....
...A separate lawsuit filed against PwC by the FDIC and Colonial’s bankruptcy trustee is pending in Alabama federal court....
...Liberals also worry that a more conservative court will mean more protections for corporations and fewer for minorities....
...A court on Monday ordered that PwC pay a US regulator, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, for failing to do enough to uncover a fraud involving non-existent mortgages that triggered the failure of...
...Courts around the US are split on whether the government can do that, and Judge Rothstein opted to let the FDIC sue....
...The decision to settle — for a confidential sum — came four weeks into proceedings in a state court in Miami....
...When Colonial collapsed in August 2009, there was a $2.8bn cost for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which sued PwC....
...Doug Jones, a former US attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, won the Democratic primary, while Roy Moore, a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, became the Republican nominee....
...In a 2007 hearing, he said “that the crooks in the corporation [should] be sent to jail”....
...A separate lawsuit filed against PwC by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the regulator, and Colonial’s bankruptcy trustee is pending in Alabama federal court....
...This week, for example, the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation could sue banks, including Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland and Wells Fargo, for selling...
...They disliked the national government, but they also thought corporations “have too much power” and were “too big.” They favored many liberal programs....
...US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
...But now a broader range of companies say they are reflecting a changing national consensus on the rights of LGBT people, which was epitomised by last year’s Supreme Court decision legalising gay marriage...
...This year, the states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Wyoming....
...Alabama’s stand-off over same-sex marriage this week shone an uncomfortable spotlight on the state’s civil rights record, with many comparing Alabama Supreme Court chief justice Roy Moore’s defiance of a...
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