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Labor Law Prof Blog
Kotkin on Invisible Discrimination
Posted on the SSRN Labor and Employment Law Abstracts today:Minna J. Kotkin, Invisible Settlements, Invisible Discrimination, 84 N.C. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2006).From the abstract:Invisibility defeats the intent of thediscrimination statutes,…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
CEO and CFO Settle SEC Fraud Charges
By Ellen Podgor
The SEC settled a securities fraud action against Edward Heil and Bret Jenkins, the CEO and CFO of eSafetyWorld, Inc. (now known as EZ Auctions and Shipping Inc.), for conduct…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Settling Lawsuits With Trusts
A recent article explores the benefits of using a trust to receive lawsuit settlement proceeds when the plaintiff is a minor or an incapacitated person. See Thomas E. Simmons (Associate,…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
KPMG & Sidley Austin
By Ellen Podgor
Not long ago, KPMG was reaching a settlement with DOJ with an agreement to pay $ 456 million. The next step is to settle with investors, and we see that…
Hepatitis Blog
PA Man Wins Chi-Chi’s Suit
September 30, 2005 Hector Duarte Jr. - All Headline News Staff Reporter Pittsburgh, PA (AHN) - A lawsuit filed by a man who needed a liver transplant after he got…
Hepatitis Blog
Chi-Chi’s pays $6.25 million to hepatitis victim
By Karen Roebuck TRIBUNE-REVIEW Friday, September 30, 2005 A Beaver County man who needed a liver transplant after being infected in the 2003 hepatitis A outbreak is receiving a $6.25…
PrawfsBlawg
Merck: What Now
Main Wednesday, August 31, 2005Merck: What NowSlate offers an interesting look at the decisions facing the various Vioxx litigants in the wake of the August 19 whopper of a judgment…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Whirlpool Corp. Agrees to Pay $850,000 in Back Wages to Settle Discrimination Claims
The Department of Labor is reporting that Whirlpool has enter into a consent decree that settles the DOL's allegations that Whirlpool engaged in hiring discrimination from March 1, 1997 to…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Former Qwest Executive Settles SEC Action
By Ellen Podgor
The SEC announced a settlement with former Qwest Communications executive vice president Gregory Casey, who was one of the defendants in a securities fraud action related to the company's accounting…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Ebbers Agrees to Settle WorldCom Securities Fraud Class Action
By Ellen Podgor
Former WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers agreed to settle the securities fraud class action with an immediate $5 million payment and to put the rest of his assets into a liquidating…