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HUB City Solid Waste Serv., Inc. v. City of Compton

Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Evidence, Government Contracts, Government Law, Public Utilities
In a waste management service provider's breach of contract suit against a city, trial court's grant of the city's motion that it did not breach the...

Blumenthal v. FERC

Administrative Law, Corp. Governance, Public Utilities, Tax-exempt Organizations
In a petition for review of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's order approving a utility company's executive compensation, the petition is...

In re: Cutera Sec. Litig.

Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
In a fraud-on-the-market suit claiming that Cutera, Inc. provided false and misleading revenue projections and failed to disclose material information...

Macey v. Carolina Cas. Ins. Co.

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Insurance Law, Contracts, Corp. Governance
In an action against an insurance policy for coverage of an underlying suit against corporate directors for breach of fiduciary duty, summary judgment...

Zamora v. Lehman

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
In a trustee's action against former officers of a defunct company, alleging breach of fiduciary duty, trial court's grant of defendants' motion to...

Continental Cas. Co. v. PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP

Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
In an action by former limited partners of Lipper Convertibles, LP, asserting direct claims of fraud against PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP (PwC), the...

Black v. US

Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, White Collar Crime
The Seventh Circuit's affirmance of defendants' honest-services mail fraud convictions is vacated where: 1) per the ruling today in Skilling v. US,...

Fox v. JAMDAT Mobile, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, M&A
In a stockholder's suit against a company and individual directors, claiming that both the acquisition process, and the common stock arising from the...

Kruss v. Booth

Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
In a shareholder derivative suit, involving a variation on a pump and dump scheme, the trial court's judgment of dismissal is reversed where: 1)...

Shandong Yinguang Chem. Indus. Joint Stock Co. v. Potter

Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action against the individual owner of a corporation seeking to pierce the corporate veil based on common law fraud and fraudulent inducement,...