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Solutia Inc. hasn’t given creditors enough information about its plan to pay them, a federal judge said, rejecting the company’s disclosure statement and delaying its bid to exit bankruptcy. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Prudence Carter Beatty in New York on Wednesday ...

Some requests under the federal Freedom of Information Act have lagged for years — and in some cases, decades — according to new survey results released by the National Security Archive at George Washington University. The report, called the Knight ...

Federal prosecutors who won bribery convictions of HealthSouth Corp. founder Richard Scrushy and former Democratic Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman denied claims they acted under pressure from Republicans to wipe out opponents. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Louis Franklin and Stephen Feaga in ...

GlaxoSmithKline, the world’s second-largest drug maker, sent letters to lawyers advertising for cases over the Avandia diabetes drug, demanding that they pull what the company contends are false or misleading ads. Attorneys for London-based Glaxo contacted “a small number” of ...

Ex-city workers sue fund over Ground Zero bills Three ex-New York City employees who claim they were sickened at the World Trade Center terrorist attack site sued a $1 billion victims’ insurance fund, saying it should pay for their medical ...

Congressional proposals to curb corporate fraud prosecutions could jeopardize investors and embolden companies to “defy” the government, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty said. McNulty, soon to leave the Justice Department and his job heading President George W. Bush’s task ...

When Weylin Watson interviewed with law firms for a summer internship, he made something clear upfront: He wanted to spend time with his family, so long hours were not for him. “That was perhaps the most important thing to me,” ...

Michael Devlin’s defense attorneys face new scrutiny about their most recent efforts to secure a new judge and trial venue for their client. At a Monday hearing in Washington County, where Devlin faces several counts of kidnapping and sexual assault ...

School district faces lawsuit claiming age discrimination A 64-year-old Gladstone man rejected for a teaching position is suing the Park Hill School District for age discrimination. The suit filed in federal court Monday claims Park Hill High School Principal Brad ...

New Mound City Bar Association president wants to protect the pro se litigant

Michael Devlin’s defense attorneys are facing new scrutiny about their most recent efforts to secure a new judge and trial venue for their client. At a Monday hearing in Washington County, where Devlin faces several counts of kidnapping and sexual ...