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Securities Law Prof Blog
Judge Rakoff Challenges SEC-Citigroup Settlement
Judge Jed Rakoff is, once again, asking tough questions about a proposed SEC settlement. This time it's the agency's $285 settlement with Citigroup involving allegedly misleading CDOs. Before he agrees to the…
Day On Torts
Discovery of Confidential Settlement Agreements
By John Day
The Fourth District Court of Appeals for Florida has ruled that a non-settling defendant cannot obtain a court order forcing disclosure of confidential settlements between the plaintiff and settling defendants.…
Securities Law Prof Blog
State Securities Commissions & E*Trade Settle ARS Claims
NASAA recently announced that a settlement in principle has been reached between E*TRADE Securities LLC and state securities regulators to return approximately $100 million to the firm’s clients who have had…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Innkeepers MAC settlement talks
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
According to Reuters, Innkeepers and Cerberus are now in settlement talks:Innkeepers USA Trust is in talks to resolve litigation over the collapse of a planned $1.12 billion asset sale to…
TortsProf Blog
Informal Aggregate Settlements
The blogosphere is talking about a recent decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit: Johnson v. Nextel Communications, Inc. (pdf). In Johnson, the Second Circuit…
Government Contracts Legal Forum
$199.5 Million Settlement for GSA in FCA Action Against Schedule Holder
GSA has now topped the $128 million settlement it reached in 2009 with NetApp – then the largest settlement reached in an FCA action against a GSA Schedule contractor –…
Bankruptcy Law Insights
Judge Rakoff Squeezes Strike Zone for Madoff Trustee
By Ben Feder
Judge Jed S. Rakoff last week largely sided with Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz, the owners of the New York Mets, and their families and affiliated enterprises (the “Wilpon/Katz Group”)…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Proposed Del Monte Settlement
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
In an example that not all transaction-related litigation is created equally, Reuters is reporting Del Monte and Barclays have agreed to a settlement in the pending challenge to the Del…
Boundary Dispute Law Blog
Game Theory and the Art of Settlement Redux
By Bob Zierman
Earlier this month I wrote a post titled Game Theory and the Art of Settlement. Well, this morning I took a few moments to open up the September 3rd -…
Ad Law Access
Is the Price Really Right? Michaels Stores Agrees to Pay $1.8 Million to Settle Deceptive Sale Pricing Charges in New York
Yesterday the New York Attorney General announced that Michaels Stores, Inc., has agreed to pay $1.8 million to settle charges that the company engaged in deceptive advertising by misleading consumers…