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Cy Pres Distribution Allocates $1.2 Million For Tenant Services
Nearly three-quarters of a $1.6 million settlement reached in 2007 in a class-action case against a company that screens tenant finances should be distributed among groups that advocate for apartment-dwellers through a cy pres fund, a federal judge has agreed. Southern District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan has signed an order approving use of some $1.2 million, the amount that could not be returned directly to individual tenants who were the subject of screening reports that violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the New York Fair Credit Reporting Act and other statutes.Matter of Columbus 95th St. LLC v. Division of Housing & Community Renewal
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Suit Proceeds Against Attorneys, Others Accused of Facilitating Mortgage 'Doomed to Failure'
Mukasey's Prospects Dimmed by Refusal to Say Waterboarding Illegal
Prospects for Michael Mukasey's confirmation as the nation's 81st attorney general dimmed Wednesday after he again refused to equate waterboarding with torture and more Democrats on a key committee announced they would vote against him. Three of 10 committee Democrats say they will vote against Mukasey on Tuesday, when the panel considers whether to advance the nomination to the full Senate for confirmation. The retired federal judge's nomination seemed assured just two weeks ago.Defamation Claim Dismissed Against Funeral-Protesting Church
A fundamentalist church that pickets at soldiers' funerals was cleared of defamation charges Monday in a first-in-the-nation lawsuit filed by the family of a fallen serviceman.Former Drinker Biddle Chairman Jones Dies at 71
Morgan R. "Dick" Jones, who served as chairman of Drinker Biddle & Reath for 11 years, died Friday morning at the age of 71 after a brief battle with pneumonia.Nothing succeeds like success. Following McKool Smith's $200 million verdict against Microsoft last month on behalf of Toronto-based i4i, another small tech company has hired the firm for an ongoing battle against the software giant, replacing a team from McDermott Will & Emery. VirnetX Holding of Scotts Valley, Calif., announced Thursday that it had signed McKool to pursue a patent infringement suit that it filed in 2007.
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