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Ally mulls bankruptcy for ResCap unit -WSJ – Reuters India
Nov 8 (Reuters) – Ally Financial Inc (GKM.N), the U.S. auto and mortgage lender, is considering putting its Residential Capital LLC (ResCap) mortgage-lending unit into bankruptcy protection, the Wall Street Journal reported on its website.
National news in brief, 11/9 – Standard-Times
Billions of dollars are potentially at stake in a trial scheduled for February to determine whether rig owner Transocean can limit what it pays those making claims under maritime law and to assign percentages of fault to Transocean and other … Continue reading
UNA-USA Honors Human Rights Activists – Leo Nevas Awards Presented to Dr. Asma Jahangir and Karen Woodin-Rodriguez – YAHOO!
… to a large audience today about the challenges she faced as an international monitor on human rights and as an activist promoting domestic reforms and rule of law in Pakistan. The award is the highest honor of the Leo … Continue reading
Barnes & Noble calls for probe into Microsoft’s patent tactics – TG Daily
Barnes & Noble asked US regulators to investigate Microsoft on anti-trust grounds this summer, court documents have revealed. Its submissions to the department accuse Microsoft of threatening Android vendors with litigation in order to stifle …
Outages Devastate Many Small Businesses; Some Join Class Action Suit – Patch
Connecticut Light and Power’s restoration efforts have taken more than 10 days to reach some business owners, and many are so incensed that they have flocked to a class-action lawsuit begun … but said that state law required them to … Continue reading
Securities and Exchange Commission – New York Times
At the November hearing involving Citigroup, Judge Rakoff homed in on the issue of banks who settle with the S.E.C. and pledge to not violate the securities laws, yet repeatedly do so. Why then, Judge Rakoff asked, had the commission … Continue reading
Co-op capture of legal aid experts could be ‘Wapping moment’ for family law | Fiona Bawdon – The Guardian
The surprise departure of Jenny Beck, the managing partner at leading legal aid firm TV Edwards, and two colleagues to set up the Co-op’s family law division could be the sector’s “Wapping moment”, according to the chair of Resolution’s legal … Continue reading
The Mergers & Acquisitions Review – Fifth Edition – South Africa – Polity.org.za
there was no provision in South African law for mergers in the true sense of the word, and mergers and acquisitions in South Africa were generally effected through the acquisition by one company of the shares in or business/assets of … Continue reading
Hiring Spurred by Health-Care Law Keeps Jobless Rate Under 10% – Bloomberg
By Alex Wayne – Thu Nov 10 05:01:00 GMT 2011 Ann Kolstad, one of 45 nurses the Marshfield Clinic in Wisconsin plans to hire to help it comply with the health-care overhaul, spent 20 minutes recently helping a 43-year-old woman … Continue reading
How media bias breeds political incivility – NewHampshire.com (blog)
which proclaims “All the news that’s fit to print” — a claim that would be subjected to truth-in-labeling laws were it not for the First Amendment. Brokaw, an honorable and industrious man, is now playing the role of elder statesman … Continue reading
