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The Effect of Justice Scalia's Death on Supreme Court Class Action Rulings
2016-03-02 13:37:21| Food - Topix.net
Dow Chemical Co.' s agreement to pay $835 million to settle a price-fixing dispute provides evidence that Justice Antonin Scalia's death is a blow to businesses that have had success recently in challenging class action cases at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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BHP dividend cut heralds the death of the yield play
2016-02-27 06:14:30| Grocery - Topix.net
The cut came as no surprise to institutional investors, many of whom had been urging BHP and its old rival Rio Tinto to rethink the size of their dividends. That didn't prevent a good old-fashioned shareprice rout when the bad news finally landed; BHP shares fell 11 per cent in three days as yield-focused investors accepted that one of Australia's biggest companies was no longer satisfying their lust for yield.
Dow settlement signals impact of Scalia death on class actions
2016-02-26 22:18:55| Food - Topix.net
Dow Chemical Co's agreement to pay $835 million to settle a price-fixing dispute provides evidence that Justice Antonin Scalia's death is a blow to businesses that have had success recently in challenging class action cases at the U.S. Supreme Court. ), on Friday settled the decade-long dispute rather than risk its fate being decided by a shorthanded, eight-justice court missing, in Scalia, a reliable vote in support of companies in class action cases.
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Cyclone-hit remote Fiji islands begin to receive aid, death toll 42
2016-02-24 06:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Fijian government and international aid agencies began delivering much needed aid on Wednesday to the Pacific nation's remote islands and coastal villages devastated by a powerful cyclone that killed 42 people. The death toll has crept up in the days since Cyclone Winston struck Fiji late on Saturday as communication has gradually been restored with the outer reaches of the archipelago that is home to some 900,000 people. Thousands of people are still sheltering in evacuation centers, their...
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Scaliaa s Death Harms Companiesa Interests in Supreme Court
2016-02-23 22:43:08| Food - Topix.net
A number of class-action cases that probably would have been decided in companies' favor are now up in the air. The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia triggered more than the brouhaha over who should appoint his successor, a story that's been vying with the presidential primaries for headlines since his Feb. 13 passing.
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