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Former Coca-Cola Co. executives said in sealed depositions that the company inflated sales in Japan in 1999 to meet Wall Street expectations, a lawyer for investors told a judge reviewing shareholder claims of securities fraud. Scott Saham, who represents pension ...

SCO Group Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. must submit arguments on their legal dispute after a U.S. judge ruled that SCO doesn’t own copyrights to the Unix computer system that form the basis of the case. U.S. District Judge ...

Quest Diagnostics Inc.’s AmeriPath unit, bought for $1.23 billion in May, was subpoenaed by U.S. and state investigators over billing and hospital agreements in government-run health plans. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Tampa, Fla., sought documents over Medicare billing and ...

Vinson & Elkins, a Houston-based firm of more than 700 attorneys, has acquired all five lawyers of Cronin & Vris, a New York bankruptcy boutique founded in 1997. Vinson & Elkins said in a statement Monday that Denis Cronin, 59, ...

Two U.S. courts offer audio recordings online Two federal courts on Tuesday became the vanguard of a pilot project to make digital audio recordings of courtroom proceedings publicly available online, according to a release from the Administrative Office of the ...

Google and its YouTube video-sharing site face more plaintiffs, including the U.S. National Music Publishers Association, in a copyright infringement suit. The music publishers association is the largest of its kind with more than 600 members, according to a statement ...

Fired employees of American Home Mortgage Investment Corp., the second-biggest mortgage lender in bankruptcy, have sued the company for back wages, claiming they were terminated without proper warning. Attorneys filed the suit last week on behalf of two former workers. ...

Valley Park moved for summary judgment Friday on the federal suit against its immigration ordinances. The city wants U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber to rule the city’s ordinances are in line with Missouri law and not discriminatory, as the ...

Lee’s Summit man pleas in mortgage fraud scheme Emanuel M. Kind, of Lee’s Summit, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to conspiracy and wire fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme. Co-defendant Ricky L. Hamilton pleaded guilty earlier this ...

The 1-year-old son of a man fatally shot by a Washington County sheriff’s deputy last year is suing the sheriff’s department and a deputy for wrongful death and excessive use of force. Deputy Jason M. Louis shot 24-year-old John L. ...

A man accused of taxiing the alleged victim in the witness tampering case against former prosecutor Eric Tolen reportedly took the boy to a police station in late July. There, a notary public certified the youth’s statement recanting allegations that ...