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National Farmers Union Welcomes COOL Lawsuit Dismissal

2015-02-10 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

US - The National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson has praised the dismissal of the US District Court lawsuit on Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL), filed by the multinational meatpacking industry and their allies to try and stop the USDA from implementing the very popular labeling law.

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Settlement reached in lawsuit seeking to block LabCorp-Covance deal

2015-02-09 22:45:15| Biotech - Topix.net

A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit challenging the $6.1 billion purchase of clinical research firm Covance by Burlington-based medical testing company Laboratory Corp. of America. The agreement comes less than two weeks before the deal is expected to close, with Covance shareholders slated to vote on the acquisition on Feb. 18. A shareholder of Covance initially brought the lawsuit seeking to block the deal based on allegations that the company's board should not have hired Goldman Sachs as its financial adviser because of a conflict of interest.

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Hamilton development prompts lawsuit

2015-02-09 03:14:31| Waste Management - Topix.net

Two conservation groups have filed a lawsuit against the state Department of Environmental Quality over a large development proposed south of Hamilton. The agency approved a wastewater discharge permit for a 156,000-square-foot building in November.

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Settlement reached in whistleblower lawsuit against Dow Chemical

2015-02-07 23:39:18| Chemicals - Topix.net

There's been a settlement in a whistleblower lawsuit against Dow Chemical. Last year, Kimberly Wood filed a lawsuit against Dow, claiming she was fired because she exposed lavish spending by CEO Andrew Liveris.

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Defense contractor tries again to get Abu Ghraib lawsuit tossed out

2015-02-07 20:39:50| IT Services - Topix.net

A defense contractor that supplied interrogators to the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq argued Friday that it can't be sued for abuses that occurred there because its employees were working in tandem with military personnel whose judgment about conducting wartime operations shouldn't be questioned by a federal judge. Four former inmates at Abu Ghraib sued a subsidiary of Arlington-based CACI International Inc. back in 2008, saying CACI employees conspired to torture them to soften them up for interrogations.

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