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Simpson Thacher, Skadden Advise on Blackstone's Mall Buy
The private equity firm agreed to pay $9.4 billion for U.S. shopping centers owned by debt-ridden Australian mall operator Centro Properties Group.Feds Place Temporary Block on Whole Foods' Purchase of Wild Oats Markets
The chief executive of Whole Foods Market Inc. told his board that if it bought its leading rival, Wild Oats Markets Inc., then Whole Foods would "eliminate forever" the possibility that anyone else could create a nationwide competitor in the natural and organic grocery business, government lawyers alleged in court document unsealed on Tuesday. This month, the Federal Trade Commission filed a federal lawsuit and won a temporary restraining order to block Whole Foods' purchase of Wild Oats Markets.Docket Watch: Cases before the high court
We run down cases up for argument at the U.S. Supreme Court in the weeks ahead.'Burlington': Setting Standard to Cut Out Weak Retaliation Claims
Gary D. Friedman, a partner at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, and Jonathan A. Shiffman, an associate at the firm, write that in a recent decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a Title VII plaintiff alleging retaliation must show that she was a victim of an employer action that a reasonable employee would find to be "materially adverse" to her interests, even if that action was unrelated to the terms and conditions of that employee's employment.Court reverses Whole Foods-Wild Oats ruling
WASHINGTON AP - Whole Foods' long-running effort to acquire its rival organic supermarket chain Wild Oats isn't completely out of the legal woods yet.A three-judge federal appeals court panel on Tuesday overturned a lower court ruling from last year that allowed Whole Foods Market Inc. to acquire Boulder, Colo.Kentucky Regulators OK $9.1 Billion Duke-Cinergy Deal
Kentucky regulators have approved Duke Energy's proposed $9.1 billion acquisition of Cinergy, deciding that Duke had demonstrated that it has the technical and financial expertise to manage Cinergy subsidiary Union Light, Heat and Power Co., and that the merger would be in the public interest. Regulators in North Carolina, Ohio and Indiana must still approve the merger. The deal may face its toughest critics in Ohio, where most of the merger-related job losses are expected.Attention-Getting Loser-Pays Not the Star of H.B. 274
As the clock ticks toward the effective date for Texas' new loser-pays law, some attorneys say its highly politicized provisions may not have as much impact on lawyers as its changes to responsible third-party practice. Five lawyers and a law professor agree the two loser-pays provisions may have little effect on the practice of law in Texas. Walker Friedman (pictured), chairman of the State Bar of Texas Litigation Section, says he doesn't expect an "overwhelming effect on lawyers."Trending Stories
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