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Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:41:03 EDT 10 http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/magazines/fortune/legalpad/?section=money_legalpad http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/images/cnnmoney_logo_144x30.gif 144 30 From CNN and Money magazine, CNNMoney.com combines business news and in-depth market analysis with practical advice and answers to personal finance questions. http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/10/19/news/SEC_IG_Goldman.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/10/19/news/SEC_IG_Goldman.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad Last week the inspector general of the Securities and Exchange Commission released a 77-page report that is, in itself, an epitome of precisely what the IG is supposed to be trying to prevent: waste and abuse at the SEC. Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:39:33 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/09/13/news/international/chevron_ecuador_litigation.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/09/13/news/international/chevron_ecuador_litigation.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad A lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador, which has become a cause célèbre for environmentalists worldwide, has suffered severe, crippling setbacks in recent months, as key plaintiffs lawyers have come under credible and weighty allegations of fraud. Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:43:29 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/08/05/news/companies/chevron_first_amendment.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/08/05/news/companies/chevron_first_amendment.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad Now that Chevron has begun sifting through 421 tapes of unreleased footage from a documentary film called Crude -- which a federal appeals court ordered filmmaker Joe Berlinger to turn over to the oil giant three weeks ago -- the sensitive First Amendment issues raised by the case seem to be multiplying, not abating. Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:32:45 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/08/04/technology/nvidia_intel_victory.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/08/04/technology/nvidia_intel_victory.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad When Jen-Hsun Huang (pronounced Jenson Wong) was 10 years old, his Taiwanese parents sent him to a boarding school in rural Kentucky. It turned out to be a reform school, where Huang was the youngest kid, and he and his brother the only Chinese. "I got beat up now and then," he says. "But I learned how to survive." Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:10:33 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/08/02/technology/Intel_class_actions.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/08/02/technology/Intel_class_actions.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad Last week, Intel got some rare good news vis-à-vis its morass of antitrust problems. On Thursday the special master overseeing nearly 80 class actions against it recommended that the classes not be certified -- a recommendation that, if adopted by U.S. District Judge Joseph J. Farnan, Jr., in Delaware, will likely result in dismissal of all the cases. Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:04:19 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/07/30/news/companies/flounder_gigger_BP_lawsuit.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/07/30/news/companies/flounder_gigger_BP_lawsuit.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad Although it's probably not BP's top priority at the moment, an ominous lawsuit was filed against it last month in state court in Mobile, Alabama, by a man named Obie F. Carlisle. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:18:03 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/07/27/news/companies/dell_settlement_intel.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/07/27/news/companies/dell_settlement_intel.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad Though last week's settlement between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Dell was anticipated -- the computer maker admitted no wrongdoing and agreed to pay about $100 million in fines -- it was nevertheless a stunning event both in terms of the charges it leveled against Dell and those it reinforced against semiconductor giant Intel. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:28:50 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/07/12/news/companies/feinberg_BP_claims.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/07/12/news/companies/feinberg_BP_claims.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad "We're interested in total peace," says Ken Feinberg, the administrator of the $20 billion Gulf Coast Escrow Fund that is being set up to provide a fast, fair claims processing facility for most oil spill victims. "We're not interested in any halfway measures," Feinberg adds. Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:27:41 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/07/01/news/companies/tom_mccoy_AMD.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/07/01/news/companies/tom_mccoy_AMD.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad In an end to an era, the top lawyer and longest-serving officer at semiconductor maker AMD, Tom McCoy, 59, announced his retirement yesterday, effective December 31. McCoy joined AMD as its general counsel in 1995 and in 2003 became its executive vice president, legal, corporate, and public affairs. Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:12:31 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/06/28/news/companies/sarbanes_oxley_supreme_court.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/06/28/news/companies/sarbanes_oxley_supreme_court.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad Though headline writers may want to obscure this fact, the impact of today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down a portion of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is easy to summarize: Zilch. Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:07:17 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/06/25/news/companies/Supreme_Court_White_Collar_Skilling.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/06/25/news/companies/Supreme_Court_White_Collar_Skilling.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the criminal case against Enron CEO Jeff Skilling yesterday addressed two crucial and frequently recurring controversies that come up in white-collar criminal cases: What is the precise meaning of the federal statute that criminalizes schemes to defraud someone out of "the intangible right to honest services." And, two, when is a jury likely to have been so personally impacted by a crime, or so emotionally inflamed by pretrial publicity and adverse local sentiment, that the only way for a defendant to get a fair trial is to have his case moved to another location? Skilling raised both issues in challenging his convictions, which were handed down by a federal jury in Houston in 2006 and for which he is serving a sentence of 24 years imprisonment. Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:50:23 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/06/18/news/sqam_lake_report.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/06/18/news/sqam_lake_report.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad On Wednesday, fifteen leading academic economists unveiled a succinct, slender and, for the most part, readable volume containing their consensus recommendations on how to fix our financial system. Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:49:21 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/06/11/news/companies/Parloff_legal_BP.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/06/11/news/companies/Parloff_legal_BP.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad Last week I wrote a short legal primer aimed at answering some key questions surrounding the legal landscape of the BP Gulf Coast oil spill. At the same time, I invited readers to send me their questions, so I could take a stab at those, too. Here goes. Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:10:13 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/06/04/news/companies/bp_legal.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/06/04/news/companies/bp_legal.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad To help readers navigate the legal landscape surrounding BP's mammoth oil spill (or "oil spew," as some argue it should more properly be called) in the Gulf Coast, I have looked into some of the law-related questions and statements that keep surfacing as the press and bloggers keep up with the crisis. I rely mainly here on an interview with Christopher B. Kende, an international insurance law specialist at the firm of Cozen O'Connor. Kende also teaches attorneys about the legal issues stemming from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as a lecturer for HB Litigation Conferences. Sun, 06 Jun 2010 09:10:34 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/04/01/news/companies/fake_va_hospitals_websites.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/04/01/news/companies/fake_va_hospitals_websites.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad Until about noon on Wednesday, dozens of websites were identifying themselves with a Red Cross-ish logo and names like "VA Medical Center Palo Alto," or "VA Hospital San Francisco," or "VA Medical Center Gainesville" though they had no affiliation with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. They were actually operated by plaintiffs law firms that were searching for clients with asbestos-related diseases. Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:04:09 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/02/11/news/companies/supreme_court_citizens_united.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/02/11/news/companies/supreme_court_citizens_united.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad The U.S. Supreme Court's stunning campaign-finance ruling last month -- finding that the "government may not suppress political speech on the basis of the speaker's corporate identity" -- triggered passionate reactions from critics, extending even to an unprecedented, point-counterpoint exchange during the State of the Union address between President Barack Obama and one of the five justices who signed it. In this article we'll aim to depressurize the debate and explain what all the fuss is about. Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:12:10 EST http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/12/16/technology/intel_parloff.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/12/16/technology/intel_parloff.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad While today's Federal Trade Commission action against semiconductor giant Intel recycles some now familiar charges -- abuses of monopoly power that were the subject of suits previously filed against the company by rival AMD and regulators with the European Commission, Japan, Korea, and the New York State Attorney General's office -- it also advances new factual allegations and enlists some fresh and untested legal theories into the fray. Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:54:02 EST http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/11/13/technology/intel_amd_settlement.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/11/13/technology/intel_amd_settlement.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad In yesterday's settlement of AMD's worldwide antitrust claims against Intel, Intel agreed to pay $1.25 billion to AMD. In addition, the two companies renewed a longstanding patent cross-licensing deal, but with Intel agreeing to delete language from it that -- as Intel interpreted it -- was restricting AMD's ability to outsource fabrication of its semiconductors to nonsubsidiaries. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:21:23 EST http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/11/13/technology/intel_settlement_emails.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/11/13/technology/intel_settlement_emails.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad Nine days after New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo made public emails to, from, and about current and former Intel CEOs Paul S. Otellini and Craig Barrett, Intel settled a four-year-old antitrust case that semiconductor rival AMD had filed against it. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:48:30 EST http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/10/22/news/companies/bank_new_york_russia.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/10/22/news/companies/bank_new_york_russia.fortune/index.htm?section=money_legalpad Signatures were inked today on an agreement between the Russian Federal Customs Service and the Bank of New York Mellon ending a strange suit that the service, represented by a Miami, Florida, contingent-fee plaintiffs' lawyer, had filed in May 2007 in Moscow, originally seeking $22.5 billion (with a "b") from the bank. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:01:20 EDT