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- Securities Fraud As Corporate Governance: Reflections Upon Federalism
- Federal securities law and enforcement via securities fraud class actions today has become the most visible presence in regulating corporate governance. State law, long at center stage in discussions of corporate governance, continues to provide the legal skeleton for the corporate form and state fiduciary duty litigation continues as a...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Shareholder Litigation: Reexamining The Balance Between Litigation Agency Costs And Management Agency Costs
- Shareholder lawsuits are a principal legal means to control management agency costs in corporations, yet they generate their own agency costs from the attorneys who bring representative litigation. This article discusses key policy question, and one that is central to good corporate governance, has long been how to properly balance...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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- Del Global Technologies Resolves Shareholder Litigation, and Adjusts Exercise Price and Term of Previously Issued Warrants
- VALHALLA, N.Y. -- Activates EUR 8 Million Romanian Order; Receives Final Court Approval of SEC Settlement Del Global Technologies Corp. DGTC ("Del Global") today announced the following developments: RESOLUTION OF SHAREHOLDER LITIGATION Del Global has resolved the dispute related to a motion filed on February 6, 2004...
- Research articles 2004-07-12
- Price and Volume Alerts for Monday August 14, 2006 - One Company Announces Final Settlement of Shareholder Litigation While Another Completes Final Closing of Private Placement.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-14 August 2006-Stockguru.com: Price and Volume Alerts for Monday August 14, 2006 - One Company Announces Final Settlement of Shareholder Litigation While Another Completes Final Closing of Private PlacementC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14082006 Dallas, Texas - StockGuru Price and Volume...
- Research articles 2006-08-14
- Court Approves Coram's Settlement Of T2 Shareholder Litigation
- DENVER--BUSINESS WIRE--May 26, 1995--Coram Healthcare (NYSE:CRH) announced today that the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia approved the previously announced agreement to settle the consolidated shareholder class action litigation involving Coram's subsidiary, T2 Medical, Inc. The litigation related to claims asserted against T2 Medical and...
- Research articles 1995-05-26
- Direct General Reaches Agreement to Settle Shareholder Litigation
- NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Direct General Corporation (Nasdaq: DRCT) today announced that it entered into a memorandum of understanding with the plaintiffs to settle three purported federal shareholder derivative actions filed in the first quarter of 2005, which were consolidated into one action captioned as In Re Direct General Corporation Derivative...
- Research articles 2007-03-06
- Fraud Litigation, Fraud Exclusions
- Shareholder litigation accounts for 47% of all directors' and officers' liability cases filed against executives of for-profit organizations, 16% against executives of privately held companies, and 1% against executives of not for profit companies in the United States. More cases are pleading more dishonest and fraudulent acts of directors and...
- White papers 2001-02-09
- Fitch: Cardinal Health to Establish Litigation Reserve
- CHICAGO -- Cardinal Health, Inc. CAH announced that it will establish a pre-tax reserve of $600 million for shareholder litigation in its fiscal third quarter of 2007, ending March 31, 2007. The amount of this reserve is consistent with Fitch's expectations when CAH'S ratings were affirmed on Nov. 20, 2006.
- Research articles 2007-04-24
- Counsel Corporation and C2 Global Technologies Inc. Settle C2 Shareholder Litigation
- Counsel Corporation (TSX: CXS) ("Counsel") and its publicly traded U.S. subsidiary, C2 Global Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: COBT) ("C2") announced today that they had settled the litigation commenced in April 2004 by certain shareholders of C2. All amounts are stated in U.S. dollars.
- Research articles 2008-06-19
- Seagate Technology, Inc. Announces Settlement of Shareholder Litigation.
- SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Oct 16, 2000 Seagate Technology, Inc. (NYSE: SEG) today announced that it, VERITAS Software Corporation (Nasdaq: VRTS) and a group of private investors led by Silver Lake Partners have entered into an agreement to settle the litigation commenced by certain Seagate...
- Research articles 2000-10-16
- Acres Gaming Announces Litigation Settlement Agreement
- Business Editors/Gaming & Legal Writers LAS VEGAS--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 28, 2000 Acres Gaming Inc. (Nasdaq:AGAM) reported that it has reached a verbal agreement in principle with the plaintiffs to settle the outstanding shareholder litigation. The agreement has not yet been reduced to writing and is subject to final...
- Research articles 2000-09-28
- New Frontier Media Inc. (For the Record).(litigation settled with Edward Bonn)(Brief Article)
- BOULDER, COLO. -- The Erotic Networks parent New Frontier Media Inc. settled all litigation with its largest individual shareholder and former director, Edward Bonn, who had sued the company ... BOULDER, COLO. -- The Erotic Networks parent New Frontier Media Inc. settled all litigation...
- Research articles 2003-04-07
- Shareholder class actions after the crash: statistical and case evidence on the effect of the private securities litigation reform act.
- This paper provides evidence that the Private Securities Litigation Act had no immediate effect on the filing of shareholder class actions, but that, paradoxically, the number of class actions filed as a nearly automatic response to large share price declines increased starting in 2000. Two case...
- Research articles 2003-03-22
- JUDGE RULES FOR POLICYHOLDER: OWENS CORNING AWARDED ALMOST $13 MILLION IN SETTLING D&O CASE.
- TOLEDO, Ohio-National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., must pay $12.8 million to Owens Corning to cover the costs of shareholder litigation against the asbestos producer's directors and officers, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. Distri TOLEDO, Ohio-National Union Fire Insurance...
- Research articles 1999-09-20
- Microtune Announces Final Court Approval for Settlement of Securities Class Action Litigation and Derivative Litigation
- PLANO, Texas -- MicrotuneR, Inc. (Nasdaq:TUNE) announced today that the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Sherman Division, has entered orders and final judgments approving the previously announced settlements of the consolidated securities class action litigation and the consolidated shareholder derivative litigation involving Microtune.
- Research articles 2005-04-06
- Tenet Reaches Agreement to Settle Securities Class-Action Lawsuits and Derivative Litigation
- DALLAS -- Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE: THC) announced today that it has reached agreements in principle to settle federal securities class-action lawsuits brought against the company on behalf of certain purchasers of Tenet securities as well as shareholder derivative litigation brought by certain stockholders of Tenet for the benefit of...
- Research articles 2006-01-12
- Fixing Corporate Governance
- Some weeks ago, I wrote Corporate Governance is a Myth, an insider's take on why our system of corporate governance doesn’t do what it's supposed to do. Now comes the hard part: figuring out what to do about it. Now, I didn't just fall off the turnip...
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Under attack
- There's a reason their critics sometimes describe trial attorneys as sharks. Mix a little blood in' the water, and they come zooming in for the kill. As with sharks, some litigators are more dangerous than others. The most lethal and best-known shareholder litigation firm is now doing business in Louisiana,...
- Research articles 2004-07-06
- Premiere Wins Significant Victory in Shareholder Class Action Litigation
- Business Editors & Technology Writers ATLANTA--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 20, 1999 Court Dismisses All Claims Based on Allegations of Fraud; Scope of Litigation Narrowed Significantly Premiere Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTEK) announced today that it scored a significant victory in its defense of the pending shareholder class action suits...
- Research articles 1999-12-20
- Greenberg Traurig Adds to Its Litigation Team
- Greenberg Traurig, LLP, the nation's seventh-largest law firm, is pleased to welcome Jeff Ifrah as a new Shareholder in its litigation practice. "We are delighted to add someone of Jeff's stature to our Washington office," said Joe Reeder, Greenberg Traurig's Regional Managing Shareholder. "Jeff will provide substantive contributions to...
- Research articles 2006-11-29
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