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The soon-to-be-appointed examiner is scheduled to deliver a preliminary report on Sept. 7. Will we finally find out if there's any substance to the shareholders' oft-repeated claims that WMI's lawyers are letting JPMorgan and the FDIC off the hook too cheaply? And if that's true, what happens to the proposed reorganization plan?
You could practically feel the wave of relief that washed over the litigation department at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett on Tuesday, when a New York state appellate court upheld a $420 million summary judgment ruling that the firm won for Travelers unit United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company back in 2010.
You'd think that Skadden and Boies Schiller offered plenty of firepower. But the case scheduled to go to trial next week in Tennessee features the first bellwether victim selected by the plaintiffs. Pfizer isn't taking any chances.
Like other banks, Credit Suisse is facing claims that it duped monoline insurers like MBIA and Assured Guaranty into insuring hundreds of millions of dollars worth of mortgage-backed securities. But while the monolines can point to favorable rulings in their suits against Countrywide and JPMorgan, they've struggled in three cases against Credit Suisse that landed before Manhattan state supreme court justice Shirley Kornreich.
Tuesday was supposed to be the day that the federal government showed it's getting tougher on Wall Street malefactors. But we just kept getting reminded of how doggedly private lawyers have been hounding the banks at the center of the financial crisis.
If the fight over U.S. rights to the famed Stolichnaya trademark were a vodka martini, you could consider it both shaken and stirred by an appellate ruling reviving a case that Russia considers a matter of national pride.
The bank and its Shearman & Sterling lawyers wanted a declaratory judgment that BofA's post-Chapter 11 seizure of $500 million from Lehman was okay. Instead it got an order to return the money, plus interest, to Lehman--with possible sanctions against BofA yet to come.
When Zynga launched its $1 billion IPO in December, the company could cite the stunning success of its Facebook social networking game FarmVille as a reason investors should sink money into the company. But a decision issued on Monday raises the possibility that the company may owe some of its success--not to mention a fair bit of cash--to a rival game creator.
A federal appellate panel wants New York's highest court to clarify when a corporation can sue for fraud committed by corporate insiders.
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