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...She patiently explained the harrowing details of the night men armed with metal rods and wooden sticks broke into her family’s home....
...“The parliamentary investigatory committee serves to control those in power,” said senior public prosecutor Roland Koch in the prosecution’s concluding statement....
...She’s engaged to the baseball player A-Rod, Alex Rodriguez. Recently, she comes back to Ben Affleck. Maybe you can give us the background quickly on Bennifer?...
...The Bestwall motion cites the J&J ruling, saying it makes clear that financial distress is the first inquiry made before a company receives the benefits of bankruptcy....
...Haley last week secured the endorsement of Americans for Prosperity Action, a well-funded super Pac backed by conservative billionaire Charles Koch....
...“The beauty of Bradford is you can bugger off to the Dales,” said an angler jangling his waders, rods and reels over a wooden stile....
...J&J followed in the footsteps of Koch Industries subsidiary Georgia-Pacific, Trane Technologies and a US unit of France-based Saint-Gobain, which have all deployed the scheme....
...“Bankruptcy courts are for honest companies in financial distress, not billionaire mega-corporations like J&J, 3M and Koch Industries, that seek to close courthouse doors to their victims.”...
...In March a judge dismissed J&J’s first attempt to use the bankruptcy courts to manage claims that its talcum powder could cause cancer....
...So we’re seeing that with the subsidiary of Koch Industries that we talked about. We also talked about 3M now emboldened by the apparent success of J&J’s LTL unit last year....
...In the US, asset managers including BlackRock and Vanguard are finding themselves a lightning rod for both sides of the political spectrum....
...Unbelievers should know; a rod will be laid across their backs. Switching from scripture to comic-strip balloon, he vows to his whooping congregation: “I am your justice . . . I am your retribution.”...
...The first of these cases was filed in 2017 by Georgia Pacific, a subsidiary of privately held Koch Industries which still faces billions of dollars of asbestos claims....
...Two high-stakes legal actions involving J&J and 3M should soon determine whether these strategies are legal....
...The first company to use the Texas two-step was an affiliate of Georgia-Pacific, which is owned by the massive conglomerate Koch Industries....
...In deploying the Texas two-step, J&J followed the examples set by Koch Industries’ Georgia Pacific, the first to deploy the mechanism in 2017; Trane Technologies; and a US unit of France-based Saint-Gobain...
...Rod Wong, chief investment officer at RTW, a New York-based healthcare fund with some China investments said the Legend Biotech white blood cell cancer therapy was a “globally competitive therapy” and part...
...J&J followed the examples set by Koch Industries’ Georgia-Pacific, the first to deploy the Texas two-step in 2017, Trane Technologies, and a US unit of France-based Saint-Gobain....
...J&J is not the first to use it: Koch Industries’ Georgia-Pacific tried it following asbestos claims; its bankruptcy is still pending in the courts....
...Jones Day is billing similar rates to Bestwall, an affiliate of Georgia-Pacific, which is a subsidiary of Koch Industries, and the first of four companies to deploy the bankruptcy scheme since 2017....
...Koch Industries’ Georgia-Pacific is using a similar manoeuvre to try to limit its liabilities against asbestos claims....
...J&J has denied its talc contains asbestos and can cause cancer. This isn’t Jones Day’s first rodeo....
...Koch (not to be confused with his Republican mega-donor younger brothers). But since the eldest Koch put the place up for sale in 1999, the trail became harder to follow....
...News round-up Architects of ‘Texas two-step’ lambast J&J for its use of the manoeuvre (FT) Former Goldman Sachs banker to stand trial over 1MDB scandal (FT) AMD closes record chip industry deal with about...
...(NYT) Koch Industries is betting on the US battery industry after years of fighting climate regulation. (WSJ)...
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