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TV Azteca, Mexico’s second-largest broadcaster, settled a lawsuit with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, resolving the first case in which a Mexican company was charged under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Under the settlement, Azteca Chairman Ricardo Salinas Pliego and board ...

Ameriprise Financial’s Securities America unit has agreed to pay $15.3 million in fines and restitution after a broker coaxed clients at Exxon Mobil Corp. into retiring early based on exaggerated promises for high investment returns, NASD said. Securities America agreed ...

Wal-Mart managers knew that store employees regularly skipped breaks and viewed the wage-law violations as sometimes necessary to meet the company’s financial targets, a former regional vice president testified. Wal-Mart managers across the United States were concerned about the frequency ...

A school violated a 13-year-old student’s First Amendment rights when it forced him to put duct tape over T-shirt images disparaging President Bush, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals. In Zachary Guiles v. Seth Marineau, et al., the 2nd ...

A Hermann man was found guilty Tuesday of stealing three credit cards from the employee room of a coffee shop and using them at a nearby gas station 15 minutes later. The case of Kevin Rosenthal is like many that ...

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After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, an executive order targeting supporters of terrorism has had implications for an unlikely group – real estate attorneys. Executive Order 13224 froze the assets of people designated as supporters of terrorism. A list ...

An attorney who reneged on a settlement agreement was properly sanctioned pursuant to U.S. Code, the 7th Circuit held earlier this month. Kevin Dal Pozzo, an employee of Richards Brick Co., was injured on the job when something went wrong ...

A patient can be involuntarily admitted for mental-health treatment even though she already committed herself, the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. The patient, who lived in a residential facility, had suffered from mental illness for many ...

An army colonel was awarded $25,000 Tuesday afternoon in her personal injury case against another driver. Col. Kathleen Swacina appeared in St. Louis County Circuit Court in uniform this week with claims she sustained significant back and spine injuries from ...

Alaska high court: Statute doesn’t revive allegations Legislation eliminating the statute of limitations for felonious sexual assault doesn’t apply retroactively to a group of adult plaintiffs’ claims that they were sexually abused by their priest when they were altar boys, ...