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Breach of Fiduciary Duty Freeze-out of plaintiffs, minority shareholders of close corporation, constituted actionable claim for corporate oppression and breach of fiduciary duty by majority shareholders. Mueller v. Cedar Shore [...]

Arguing that the federal Defense of Marriage Act imposes serious administrative and financial costs on their operations, some of the nation's largest companies filed a supporting brief with the Supreme [...]

WASHINGTON -- The ostensible question at a Supreme Court argument on Monday was how large a role the jury must play in setting fines against corporations found guilty of environmental [...]

Byline: Julian Simcock In 1993, having spent the entirety of his adult life fighting apartheid, Nelson Mandela was presented with an uneasy proposition. In exchange for amnesty for some of [...]

Byline: Warren Richey The US Supreme Court on Wednesday embraced a strict reading of a federal arbitration law, making it more difficult for individuals with small claims to join together [...]

TRENTON, N.J. -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey: An engineer who formerly lived in Mahwah, New Jersey, was [...]

When filing requests for public records, the demand for documents can be denied for many reasons. The ACLU of Massachusetts received a surprising one from SWAT teams across the state; [...]

While today's U.S. Supreme Court decision in the closely watched Halliburton Co. v. Erica P. John Fund case didn't go as far as some corporate advocates had hoped, it does [...]

In Bakorp Management Ltd. v. The Queen (2014 FCA 104), the Federal Court of Appeal upheld a decision of the Tax Court dismissing the taxpayer's appeal for failure to comply [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following information was released by Planned Parenthood Federation of America: Saying that an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case and a slew of state legislation are all [...]

WASHINGTON -- Continuing to explore the limits of corporations' constitutional rights, the Supreme Court on Tuesday added cases to its docket that will test the scope of companies' rights to [...]

general financial The former chief executive of Taqa, a state-controlled energy company in Abu Dhabi , has filed a lawsuit against his former employer alleging that he was sacked after [...]

New Delhi, Dec. 21 -- Farmers Insurance Exchange, 21st Century Insurance Company, Coast National Insurance Company, Mid-Century Insurance Company, and Truck Insurance Exchange ('Farmers') have filed a lawsuit in the [...]

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Farmers Insurance Exchange, 21st Century Insurance Company, Coast National Insurance Company, Mid-Century Insurance Company, and Truck Insurance Exchange ('Farmers') have filed a lawsuit [...]

A German court fined truck maker MAN SE's units MAN Turbo AG and MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG a combined 150 million euro for failing to prevent executives from engaging in bribery to sell trucks and buses. Bribery charges have also been brought against individual officials, including MAN Turbo's former chief Jurgen Maus.

Holding company Fininvest S.p.A., owned by the family of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, was ordered by a Milan civil court to pay 750 million euro in damages to publishing and energy conglomerate CIR for a 1991 court ruling that allowed Fininvest to take control of publisher Arnoldo Mondadori S.p.A. It's alleged that a Fininvest lawyer bribed a judge in the 1991 case.

Corruption case details blocked Company linked to president's son Chinese government censors have launched a sweeping campaign to purge any mention of a corruption investigation in Namibia from the internet [...]

A Red Wing security company is charged with not passing along to the state the sales taxes collected from customers. The company owes $215,000, according to a criminal complaint. A [...]

The Internal Revenue Service, bolstered by recent court rulings, offered more than 45 corporations Wednesday the chance to settle disputes involving two tax shelters used to defer payment of billions […]

The Internal Revenue Service, bolstered by recent court rulings, offered more than 45 corporations on Wednesday the chance to settle disputes involving two tax shelters used to defer payment of […]

Claiming insider trading and deliberate misinformation by managers and shareholders, individual and institutional investors have filed lawsuits in the U.S. against EADS and some of its top managers. Article discusses the background of the case, effects of the case on EADS's share value, and the lawsuits' potential class-action status.

Dow Chemical Co. wins the lawsuit against former executives Romeo Kreinberg and J. Pedro Reinhard accused of plotting to sell the company for their own benefit. Article discusses the background of the lawsuit, and the settlement of the case.

In the wake of French and Swiss governmental probes into alleged bribery perpetrated by executives of engineering company Alstom S.A. to win contracts in developing countries, Alstom announces it has filed as co-plaintiff claiming damages from the misappropriation of company funds. Article discusses the circumstances of the investigation, Alstom's legal advantages by filing as co-plaintiff, and related bribery probe by Brazilian authorities.

Observers expecting Conrad Black's trial to open a window on his excesses as CEO of Hollinger International Inc. got a bonus last week: a peek into the abysmal state of [...]

Industriegewerkeschaft Metall fur die Bundesrepublik Deutschland (IG Metall) has filed a suit against Siemens AG, alleging that the firm illegally funded a management-biased worker organization to hinder and/or decrease labor rights. A spokesman for Siemens said the company is cooperating with the resulting investigation.