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Stone v. Instrumentation Lab. Co.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
In an employment retaliation action under the whistleblower provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, grant of defendant's motion to dismiss in favor of...

City of Harper Woods' Employees' Ret. Sys. v. Olver

Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
In a shareholder derivative action alleging breaches of fiduciary duties and waste of corporate assets by current and former directors of a...

Haro v. Ibarra

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
In an action brought by doctors who were former shareholders of a medical corporation, trial court's dismissal of the complaint is reversed and...

In re: Plassein Int'l Corp.

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Corporation & Enterprise Law, M&A, Securities Law
In an adversary proceeding brought by the trustee of a corporation and the subsidiaries it had acquired in related leveraged buy-outs, seeking to...

Konkol v. Diebold, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
In a class action securities-fraud lawsuit against Diebold, Inc., brought by investors alleging that between 2003 and 2005 Diebold engaged in a series...

In re: Superior Offshore Int'l., Inc.

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Oil and Gas Law, Securities Law
In creditors' appeal from the bankruptcy court's confirmation of the debtor's Chapter 11 liquidation plan, the order is affirmed where: 1) 11 U.S.C....

People v. O'Neal

Administrative Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies, Securities Law
In an administrative action brought by the Commissioner of Corporations against defendant for the offer and sale of unqualified, not-exempt...

Electronic Trading Grp., LLC v. Banc of Am. Secs. LLC

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Securities Law
In an antitrust action by a short seller against "prime brokers" in short sale transactions alleging that the prime brokers arbitrarily designated...

US v. Berger

Criminal Law & Procedure, Securities Law, Sentencing, White Collar Crime
Defendant's bank and securities fraud sentence is vacated where, although the Dura Pharmaceuticals loss causation standard did not apply to criminal...

People v. Smith

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Securities Law
In a prosecution of defendant for grand theft and securities crimes, trial court's admission of agreements executed by individuals named in dismissed...