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...A 2009 Supreme Court case involving prescription drug labels, Wyeth v Levine, greenlighted state laws that are stricter than federal laws....
...Reporting by Sarah Gordon, Leo Lewis, Kana Inagaki, Peter Campbell, Guy Chazan, Stefan Wagstyl and David Bond...
...requiring two-thirds of votes cast to pass, it could yet be scuppered by the large block of foreign investors, who have been encouraged to reject the merger by influential proxy advisers ISS and Glass Lewis...
...economic benefits based, directly or indirectly, on the value or price of, any capital stock of, or other securities or ownership interests in, the Company (the items in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v)...
...Thus, he admires “Germany’s culture of co-determination and labour-management partnership”, for example, or “the John Lewis Partnership in the United Kingdom, employee owned and the best high-quality retail...
...the Analysts, Martoma claimed to have “black edge” —illicit, nonpublic information… The Analysts exchanged a number of emails and instant messages with Cohen about whether Martoma’s advice on Elan and Wyeth...
...Retailers ticked higher after John Lewis, the department store, reported another week of double-digit sales growth across clothes, homewares and electronics....
...It owns the Dutch retail brands Scotch & Soda and V&D, and Neckermann, the German mail order fashion business....
...Unlike the cheery countenance portrayed in his stock pic, Judge Jed Rakoff has been all scowls since the day he picked up the case of SEC v Bank of America Merrill Lynch....
...They are the visible tip of a growing pandemic of what the biologist Lewis Wolpert memorably called “malignant sadness”....
...These factors were epitomised by John Lewis, which enjoyed a record festive season....
...Merrill’s large role in M&A has also boosted both banks’ advisory role in high-profile deals this year, such as Pfizer’s $68bn deal with Wyeth and Walt Disney’s $3.9bn deal with Marvel Entertainment....
...The bank’s shares gained 6.5 per cent to $8.68 in spite of the fate of Ken Lewis’ role as both chairman and chief executive hanging in the balance after a vote among shareholders....
...The case, Gallus et al. v....
...Glass Lewis coming out against the bank’s new chairman, Richard Parsons...
...Pharmaceutical stocks showed little reaction to news that Pfizer was in talks to buy Wyeth for $60bn, in what would be the biggest sector merger in six years....
...The court will decide whether to shield drugmakers from many costly patient lawsuits, agreeing to hear Wyeth v Levine, a case that tests whether companies are protected from liability when federal regulators...
...Bob Lewis, AIG’s chief risk officer, indicated that it would take events of “Depression proportions” for AIG to suffer....
...Those changes will be inexorable,” says Mr Lewis at the Burton Group....
...We dodged between digits, watching in V-Vision. These professional japesters have no concern for their safety or our breakfasts. Whenever you think things cannot get worse, they do....
...My favourite book that hints at these issues is [Michael] Lewis?s Moneyball. I read it early, and knew it was going to be a very big book ?...
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