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...Forum shopping has long been a problem in bankruptcy, but Purdue did not merely forum shop into the district of its choice. It also hand-picked its judge: Robert D....
...“Representatives and a family court judge thought it’d be good . . . to get him a job there,” Joanne Giannini, a former Rhode Island politician, told me....
...“And if I’d had to close,” he says, “I’d just have found another way to open.”...
...This somewhat arbitrary barometer has been used to judge new Oval Office occupants since Franklin D Roosevelt in 1933. And the president is showing signs of anxiety....
...One of the ways I try to talk about this is the Parable of the Talents, which is this crazy parable in the Bible....
...On the train, I read about the raison d’être for Sacré-Cœur. It all started in 1870....
...(WSJ) Judge considers dismissing U.S. fraud case against Bank of America: “While not issuing a formal ruling, U.S....
...But they’d have to get through this: Argentina will make payments under the Exchange Bonds to the new Trustee outside the US....
...His European U-turn will also mean Mr Yanukovich will not need to give up its ability to manipulate the old Soviet judicial system, in which the state-appointed prosecutor is, de facto, superior to the judge...
...It is a reminder that government agencies, which tend to measure quantity rather than quality, are seldom the best judges of literary potential....
...(Financial Times) “Argentina’s proposal to use a debt swap to pay some of its creditors would violate a U.S. court injunction, a judge in New York said on Thursday.”...
...The settlement is subject to the approval of Judge Victor Marrero of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York....
...District Court and Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which review most financial and environmental regulations, remain in the hands of conservative judges, most appointed by Republican presidents...
...The judges sentenced Breivik, who smirked as the sentence was read out, to 21 years in prison but deducted the 445 days he has already served....
...“In Sri Lanka I would have given the judge 50,000 rupees and he’d be sitting having dinner at my house. Here, I got my shot. The American justice system is by and large fair.”...
...U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle asked the agency last month to explain what senior executives knew as she considers approving Citigroup’s $75 million settlement with the regulator....
...Calvin Hathaway has performed one of his legendary U-turns....
...Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has filed a civil forfeiture complaint against 10 1933 Double Eagle gold pieces, consistent with U.S. District Court Judge Legrome D....
...The Obama administration says it will judge the progress on any talks by the end of the year, opening the way to a push for heightened sanctions on Iran....
...They took students from Princeton, Yale, Harvard, U-Penn and Brigham Young University [a Mormon university in Utah]. I was like, ‘what the hell? BYU?’...
...District Judge Jane Boyle on April 3 entered a temporary restraining order, froze the defendants’ assets, and appointed a receiver to marshal assets....
...Judge Reed O’Connor, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, granted the SEC’s request for an asset freeze and emergency relief for investors....
...Eve of the U.S....
...District Court Judge for the Northern District of Texas, granted the SEC’s request for emergency relief for investors, and issued the orders freezing assets and appointing a receiver over R....
...District Judge Reed O’Connor entered a temporary restraining order, froze the defendants’ assets, and appointed a receiver to marshal those assets....
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