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Jury Awards $5 Million To Guard Crushed by Booth
A Philadelphia jury has awarded $5 million to a former security guard at a South Philadelphia sports complex who claimed he suffered permanent abdominal injuries in September 2003 when a parking lot booth he was sitting next to fell on top of him after being blown over by a gust of wind.Fund manager Robert Berlacher must disgorge more than $350,000 in profits he made by shorting a "PIPEs" investment, but a federal judge exonerated him of two fraud counts and an insider trading charge.
Broward Bank of Commerce reports first ever profit
The bank posted net income of $65,400 for the fourth quarter of 2010, compared with a $402,000 loss for the same period a year earlier. The bank lost $22,000 in the third quarter of 2010.View more book results for the query "*"
Cooley and Gibson Thriving On Biotech Deals
Cooley Godward's Palo Alto office helped Conor file its IPO on Aug. 23, becoming the latest in a surge of medical/biotech companies trying to go public before Election Day. And Gibson, Dunn counseled St. Jude Medical Inc. through a $273 acquisition of Endocardial Solutions Inc., a maker of catheters used for diagnosing and treating irregular heartbeats.Employers Can Deny Coverage for Infertility Treatments
Denying insurance coverage for infertility treatments that can only be performed on women is not unlawful discrimination, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled. Finding that the "exclusion of surgical impregnation procedures disadvantages infertile male and female employees equally," the court said an employer who refused to pay for artificial insemination did not violate the Pregnancy Discrimination Act.Panel Mulls Jail Time After Revocation of Supervised Release
A debate about what kind of resentencing the federal sentencing laws and guidelines permit when a judge revokes a felon's supervised release dominated an oral argument at the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Feb. 8. At issue was whether it was proper to use an additional term of imprisonment as a treatment mechanism for a sex offender.Former Hollinger GC Passes the Buck in Fraud Trial
How does a general counsel stay out of jail if he's been accused of helping company executives line their pockets with millions of shareholder dollars? If he's Mark Kipnis, the former legal chief at Hollinger International, he pleads lack of experience and shifts the blame to the company's outside counsel. Pointing the finger may get Kipnis off -- he faces up to five years in prison -- but some experts say that his defense is the equivalent of career suicide.Trending Stories
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