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Securities Law Prof Blog
Judge Requests Financial Information From Former Lehman Officers Before Ruling on Fairness of Proposed Settlement
Before deciding whether to approve a proposed $90 million settlement with the former directors and officers of Lehman Brothers (to be paid entirely from D&O insurance), Judge Lewis Kaplan requested additional…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Preliminary Approval Granted for Deepwater Horizon Settlement
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
The story is reported by the National Law Journal here. The link to the Oil Spill litigation web site, which contains additional links to the court's actual orders regarding the…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Sixth Circuit Affirms Kentucky Fen-Phen Convictions
By joetort
On Tuesday, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the convictions and sentences of William Gallion and Shirley Cunningham for their handling of a massive settlement of fen-phen claims.…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Campos on Brown on Specious Claims & Global Settlements
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Now available on the Courts Law section of JOTWELL is an essay by Prof. Sergio Campos (Miami) entitled Striking Out Specious Claims in Mass Tort Global Settlements. It reviews a…
Class Actions Insider
Cy Pres Distribution of Class Action Settlement Funds: First Circuit Provides New Guidance
Last week, in In re Lupron Marketing & Sales Practices Litigation, Nos. 10-2494, 11-1329, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 8263 (1st Cir. Apr. 24, 2012), the First Circuit issued a significant…
Environmental Law Prof Blog
The Good and the Bad in the BP Settlement, and the Main Course Still Ahead
I spent last Friday--the second anniversary of the BP Blowout--in the vast basement of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court building, shifting in my metal chair, ignoring the talk-show…
Legal Profession Blog
Policy Limits
The Tennessee Court of Appeals has reversed and remanded an order dismissing a case against a law firm that had defended a personal injury claim against a commercial driver.The plaintiffs…
China Law Insight
Post-Award Settlement for International Arbitration
By King & Wood
By Zhang Shouzhi Hu Ke and Xu Beibei King & Wood Mallesons' Dispute Resoution Group A final arbitral award is the final and binding conclusion of the substantial dispute submitted…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Supreme Court denies cert in DeBeers Diamond class action settlement
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Well, that was quick. Days after we reported that some objectors to the settlement (earlier approved en banc by the Third Circuit) had petitioned for certiorari, the Supreme Court denied the…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Hamermesh on the Delphi Financial settlement
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
Last month, Vice Chancellor Glasscock had an interesting opinion in the Delphi Financial Group case. You'll remember that in that case, Rosenkranz, a controlling shareholder, structured the transaction to generate…