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...The defendants are Welsh Carson, a New York-based buyout group, and US Anesthesia Partners, a business it created in 2012 that has acquired more than a dozen anaesthesiology practices in Texas....
...“After these trials, we can turn a page in our history and establish ourselves as one of the most consolidated democracies in the world. Fascism won’t grow around here,” he said on social media....
...Scores of counties, cities and tribes have since brought their own lawsuits, however, 100 of which have been consolidated....
...Ferri-Ricchi, who is not a defendant in the case and not involved in the legal proceedings, left the German lender in 2019, a year before the Teal probe started....
...“My dream is to kill corruption,” he said, gesturing to the case files of his defendants. “It’s a bloody war, and we need fighters.”...
...The 34-year-old heir apparent has displayed zero tolerance to dissent as he has consolidated power since his father, King Salman, ascended the throne in January 2015....
...There are thousands of lawsuits against Purdue Pharma, as well as other opioid manufacturers and distributors, with many due to be heard in court in a giant consolidated case in October....
...“While positioning itself as UNFI’s trusted advisor on the one hand and its counter-party lender on the other, Goldman Sachs consolidated its command over all aspects of the transaction in order to extract...
...For years brokers’ lawyers and many judges assumed that complaints against payment for order flow could not be consolidated into class actions big enough to overcome the transaction costs of the lawsuits...
...Ramu Ramasamy, one of the Hermes founders who controls GI Retail and was named as a defendant, said “the matter is in court”....
...“It can only be explained by the consistent tipping of the playing field in defendants’ favour,” says the CBTP complaint....
...Several former executives are also named as individual defendants....
...As of its April 2001 filing date, WR Grace was a defendant in over 65,000 asbestos-related suits involving nearly 130,000 people....
...Other defendants have gone on hunger strike to protest the opaque legal system that presents new charges when previous allegations are questioned by judges....
...The US consulate-general in May called for Mr Shahin to receive bail and for his multiple charges to be consolidated into one trial....
...have been consolidated before the US District Court for the Southern District of New York....
...The lawsuit consolidated litigation that had been brought nationwide, and names pension funds in Ohio, Texas, the Netherlands and Sweden as lead plaintiffs....
...Extended excerpt: The banks’ defendant argument for dismissal is four pronged....
...This week, plaintiffs’ attorneys consolidated the suits into a single complaint and sought class action status in federal court....
...The company is already a defendant in more than 600 private civil suits and has been accused of everything from gross negligence to breaching anti-racketeering laws....
...Accordingly, the TAC adequately alleges that E&Y misrepresented in the 2Q08 that it was “not aware of any material modifications that should be made to the consolidated financial statements referred to above...
...“The Defendants cannot demonstrate merger-specific, cognizable efficiencies sufficient to reverse the acquisition’s anticompetitive effects,” says the complaint....
...“It is very disappointing both for the victims and the defendants that the jury could not reach agreement on a number of counts on the indictment.”...
...The ruling on the cases brought by individuals and businesses from oyster houses to estate agents is one of the opening moves in what is likely to be years of litigation as BP and its co-defendants fight...
...Yesterday Cameron attempted to sidestep the ruling by publishing the current “consolidated guidance”....
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