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...Lawmakers in Iowa say the lobbying effort could be broadened across the country....
...historic and justified, but is necessary to protect the future of democracy in our country,” said Noah Bookbinder, president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which had backed the plaintiffs...
...Legislation is still working its way through Iowa and Missouri. Trial attorneys have not laid down here....
...In a settlement announced on Wednesday, the banks will pay $499mn to a class of investors led by several US pension funds from Iowa, Los Angeles, Orange County and Sonoma County....
...“Plaintiffs’ claims seek to distort search competition . . . all in the hopes that forcing people to use inferior products in the short run will somehow be good for competition in the long run,” he said....
...The arrangement had precedent in the Iowa Electronic Markets, at the University of Iowa, which got its no-action letter in 1992....
...Declaring “it’s just a game” is insufficient, says Douglas Gentile, professor of psychology at Iowa State University and a leading authority on mental health and gaming....
...This week, several men's basketball stars including Jordan Bohannon of Iowa launched a hashtag, #NotNCAAProperty, calling for compensation reform and a Supreme Court finding in favour of the plaintiffs in...
...But several states, including Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Iowa, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Washington, rejected the provisional deal....
...However, rivals may want to see if his rise in Iowa is for real before trying to drag him down....
...(FT) Payouts shake insurers The global insurance industry has a new enemy: US juries, which are handing out ever more generous awards to plaintiffs covering opioid overdoses to tainted talc....
...The plaintiffs, led by the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio and the Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System, had claimed they were tricked when Mr Ackman bought their shares in the knowledge that...
...The judge pointed out that Chevron and the scientists called by the plaintiff cities largely agreed with each other....
...They also accused the plaintiffs of being serial litigants and their lawyers of being ambulance chasers....
...Since the plaintiffs represent more than half of US states, the Florida case has more prominence than some two dozen similar lawsuits filed in federal courts....
...WAL-MART The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein The New Press, January 2006, £12.99 ($21.95) In the winter of 1912, the merchants of Cedar Falls, Iowa, paraded with a...
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