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Trump Faces Tough Task Unwinding Obama Cuba Policy

The Trump administration is close to announcing a new policy that would prohibit business with the Cuban military while maintaining the full diplomatic relations restored by former President Barack Obama, according to a administration official and a person involved in the ongoing policy review.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Packinghouses Struggle to Maintain Supplies Amid Greening

Stories of the fatal bacterial disease citrus greening often focus on growers, who have seen their annual harvest decline by more than 70 percent because of greening. Just as severely impacted have been Florida's fresh citrus packinghouses, which buy a large portion of Florida's annual orange, grapefruit and tangerine harvests and sell them to supermarket chains and retailers across the U.S. and ship to export markets, including Japan, Canada and Europe.
11 minute read

Daily Business Review

Cuban Entrepreneurs Start First Private Business Group

A handful of entrepreneurs have quietly formed communist Cuba's first private small business association, testing the government's willingness to allow Cubans to organize outside the strict bounds of state control.
7 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigator of the Week: A Giant of the Plaintiffs Bar—and a Giant Settlement

Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll partner Joseph Sellers just won approval of a major settlement in a decades-old discrimination class action, for what he hopes is the last time.
5 minute read

Delaware Law Weekly

Monsanto Quickly Removes Personal Injury Cases to Federal Court

Monsanto Co. met a new batch of personal injury suits related to its Roundup-branded herbicides on Friday with immediate removal from Delaware state court to federal court in Wilmington.
7 minute read

The Recorder

Mixed Fruit in Strawberry Patent Ruling

U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria says university and former professors might both be liable in fight over berry genotypes.
4 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Judge Recommends Transfer of Farmers' Pesticide Case vs. Occidental

A U.S. magistrate judge in Delaware has recommended that the court transfer a suit against Occidental Chemical Corp. related to toxic pesticide exposure to New York federal court, finding a lack of jurisdiction in Delaware.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

A Decade in Turmoil: Where Chiquita's GC Steered His Company Wrong

In the spring of 2003, Robert Olson, then general counsel of Chiquita Brands International Inc., was advising the company on whether to continue making illegal "security payments" to known terrorists in Colombia. The money bought protection for the company's employees and banana plantations.
8 minute read

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