Will the U.S. Supreme Court agree to decide once and for all whether corporations are liable for human rights abuses under the Alien Tort Statute?

Airgas's lawyers at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz maintain that Air Products orchestrated a plan to accelerate Airgas's next shareholder meeting in violation of Delaware law.

It's been a long three months for jurors in the landmark f-cubed securities class action trial, but there's a light at the end of the tunnel. On Tuesday morning the Lit Daily went to court to check out Vivendi's closing arguments.

In an unusual move, J. Crew has turned the tables on shareholders and sued them for allegedly backing out of the terms of a memorandum of understanding. In a complaint filed in Delaware Chancery Court, the company seeks to enforce the $10 million "binding agreement" that allegedly resolved shareholder charges arising from the the company's buyout by CEO Mickey Drexler and two private equity funds.

HSBC on Monday announced it had entered into a partial settlement with investors in Thema International Fund. A day later Manhattan federal district court judge Richard Berman dismissed all the claims against the bank and other defendants, largely on the grounds that the cases should be filed in Ireland and Luxembourg.