Ron Burkle, the billionaire who favors unions over shareholders, is roiling company management and giving creditors a chance of higher returns with his effort to rescue bankrupt Interstate Bakeries Corp. Interstate, the maker of the once iconic and now nutritionally ...
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A Kansas-based fundamentalist church and three of its principal members have been ordered to pay $10.9 million to the father of a U.S. Marine whose funeral the anti-gay group picketed. After a week-long trial in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, ...
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An unemployed Kansas City man is ready to drag God into court and make him pay. Gregory Rollins demanded $1 trillion in a federal lawsuit filed this week against his creator, who allegedly was negligent in designing Rollins. Rollins, 50, ...
Read More »Kansas church to pay $11M for picketing Marine’s funeral
A Kansas-based fundamentalist church and three of its principal members have been ordered to pay $10.9 million to the father of a U.S. Marine whose funeral the anti-gay group picketed. After a week-long trial in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, ...
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Devra Davis spent part of her growing-up years in a Pennsylvania steel town that became famous for a lethal industrial fog that settled over the community and killed 20 people over five days in 1948. Thus it’s no surprise that ...
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Three law firms are seeking a record $464 million in legal fees for their work in winning a $3.2 billion securities fraud settlement from Tyco International Ltd. and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. The firms, Grant & Eisenhofer, Milberg Weiss, and Shiffrin, Barroway, ...
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President George W. Bush defended Michael Mukasey’s refusal to declare so-called waterboarding illegal, saying the attorney general nominee has no direct knowledge of interrogation techniques. Bush, prodding the Senate to confirm Mukasey, told reporters at the White House that lawmakers ...
Read More »Former No. 2 at Wal-Mart loses bid for rehearing in St. Louis
Former Wal-Mart Stores Inc. executive Thomas Coughlin, who admitted stealing from the company, may be headed to prison after the St. Louis-based federal appeals court refused to revisit its decision rejecting a sentence of home detention. The court this week ...
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The U.S. government collected $2 billion from civil fraud cases in the past fiscal year, with most of the money from a Justice Department probe of the drug industry that produced settlements with Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc. ...
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