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Beck v. Dobrowski

Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
In an action involving a shareholder's proxy vote, district court's judgment is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff's claim under Securities Exchange Act...

SEC v. Koenig

Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
In an action involving fraud and false accounting, district court's imposition of civil penalties and order to disgorge bonsues is affirmed where: 1)...

Torch Liquidating Trust v. Stockstill

Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law
In a breach of fiduciary duty action, the dismissal of Plaintiff's complaint is affirmed, where the complaint failed to allege injury to the...

Hecker v. Deere & Co.

Class Actions, Corp. Governance, Government Law, Securities Law
In a securities claim in which plaintiffs brought suit on their own behalf and for a class of plan participants alleging defendant violated its...

Cotton v. Expo Power Sys.

Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
In an action against the majority shareholders of a corporation for breach of fiduciary duties brought by a minority shareholder seeking dissolution...

Day v. Staples, Inc.

Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
In an action brought against former employer-Staples, alleging plaintiff was fired for reporting fraud, in violation of the federal whistleblower...

Muskat v. US

Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Labor & Employment Law, Tax Law
In a case involving the appropriate tax treatment of a contractual payment initially reported as ordinary income but later recharacterized as a...

Bunch v. W.R. Grace & Co.

Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
In consolidated suits filed by participants in defendant-employer's Retirement and Savings Plan alleging a breach of the fiduciary duty owed...

West Hills Farms, Inc. v. RCO AG Credit, Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law
In a derivative action in which defendant was sued by plaintiff-shareholder for allegedly unnecessary fees paid by defendant to a related corporate...

Westar Energy, Inc. v. Lake

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Remedies, White Collar Crime
An interlocutory order, requiring plaintiff-company to advance past and future legal fees incurred by defendant for his criminal defense, is affirmed...