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...Lululemon’s shares have surged 49 per cent over the past 12 months — easily beating a 4.6 per cent rise for the S&P Retail Select Industry index....
...The recent surge in Roundup advert spending “indicates that attorneys for the plaintiffs believe that future jury awards or settlements are possible and even likely despite previous setbacks,” said Rustin...
...Women were outnumbered five to one in the 533 most senior leadership positions in S&P 100 businesses in 2023, with only 17 black women on that list, according to USA Today in March....
...With that proviso, Monday is the date set for the criminal trial of former US president Donald Trump’s family company over tax fraud charges brought by Manhattan’s district attorney to begin in a New York...
...The Staff agreed to forego the formal subpoena process on the condition that VW agreed to produce the documents by February 3, 2017 at 3:00 p.m....
...Legal experts believe the verdict could incite the interest of more plaintiffs, including state attorneys-general who have so far focused on Purdue Pharma, the maker of the OxyContin opioid, owned by members...
...“The lease would need to be well structured to avoid it being sold on and that the land is used for other, less green, purposes,” said Kerry McCarthy, Labour MP for Bristol and an advocate of rewilding the...
...Part of the reason is that shareholders and/or plaintiffs attorneys are coming after companies for new things — failure to prevent sexual harassment, data breaches, drug side-effects, and so on....
...RBC went to court in 2015 only to lose and pay for a $100m judgment. The plaintiff's lawyer in that case, Joel Friedlander, is the same one now chasing Cravath....
...Everlaw’s application, StoryBuilder, was used to help lawyers from 10 firms representing plaintiffs collaborate across time zones and jurisdictions....
...Unsurprisingly, local corporate and plaintiffs lawyers are disproportionately powerful in Delaware....
...The company reported lower net income for 2011 and 2012 — by 20 per cent and 19 per cent respectively, according to data from S&P....
...Waiting for them was the Hon. Thomas P. Griesa, federal judge for the Southern District of New York, and the original author of the order....
...The DoJ sued S&P, a unit of McGraw-Hill, earlier this year over its ratings on mortgage debt and in August Bank of America was sued for its mortgage sales practices....
...Moody’s plans to put its analysts on the stand to counter what it says are “cherry pickings” used in the plaintiffs’ case....
...“The primary fault for this disaster lies with BP,” Assistant US Attorney Mike Underhill said, joining other plaintiffs in citing operational failures on the well before its explosion and oil spill in 2010...
...If those rulings had gone the other way, S&P would then be subject to “strict liability” for the deals, a much easier standard for plaintiffs to meet....
...Harris, plaintiffs’ attorneys allege a financial adviser breached its duties by overcharging clients of its collective investment schemes (mutual funds) for services. In the trial court, they lost....
...The attorneys general of some US states, including Ohio, are also scrutinising the agencies’ role....
...The S&P 500, which at the start of this week was down for the year, is now up by about 2 per cent....
...A campaign for “corporate reparations” has also moved forward. Last month, J.P....
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