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Morrison v. W. Builders of Amarillo Inc

Bankruptcy Law, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Evidence
District court order holding debtor personally liable for a nondischargeable debt incurred by the company he controlled is affirmed where: 1) the...

Rosenberg v. Gould

Class Actions, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
District court properly dismissed securities fraud class action with prejudice where shareholders failed adequately to allege Defendants' scienter....

Tritek Telecom, Inc. v. Superior Court of San Diego County (Mak)

Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law
A corporate director does not have the right to access documents covered by the attorney-client privilege that were generated in defense of a suit for...

People v. Roscoe

Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Judgement Enforcement, Remedies
Following judgment finding defendants jointly and severally liable for penalties pursuant to laws governing underground storage of hazardous...

Illinois Bell Tele. Co., Inc. v. Global NAPs Illinois, Inc.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law
In a suit against a group of affiliated corporations claiming that defendants failed to pay for telecommunications services that the plaintiff had...

Adventure Outdoors, Inc. v. Bloomberg

Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a state-law libel and negligence action, district court's order concluding that state privilege law applied to the case and that state...

Club Members for an Honest Election v. Sierra Club

Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Elections, Environmental Law, Remedies
The public interest exception to the anti-SLAPP statute in Code of Civil Procedure section 425.17(b) applies only when an entire action is brought in...

In re: Digimarc Corp. Derivative Litig.

Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
There is no private right of action under section 304 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which provides for the forfeiture of certain bonuses and profits when...

Jewell v. US

Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Tax Law
In an action seeking a refund of plaintiff's pro rata share of a tax sanction paid in conjunction with a closing agreement between his former law firm...

Upper Deck Co., LLC v. Am. Int'l Specialty Lines Ins. Co.

Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Insurance Law, Tax Law
In an appeal arising out of an insurance policy that plaintiff purchased from defendant-insurer that insured a tax strategy that an accounting firm...