Litigation

Indiana Court of Appelas and Joint Ventures
The Indiana Lawyer reports that the Indiana Court of Appeals has a new decision regarding joint ventures: COA sides with Lauth in casino suitLauth filed a motion for summary judgment in June 2006 claiming that the agreement formed a joint venture at most and that it was terminated when the Gaming Commission chose Trump over Lost River's proposal...

DOJ Refuses to Protect Beer Drinkers from Miller/Coors Joint Venture
On June 5, 2008, the Antitrust Division issued a press release advising that it was closing its investigation into the potential anticompetitve effects from a joint venture between SABMiller plc (Miller) and Molson Coors Brewing Company to combine their operations in the United States...

Cottage Savings Redux? A Tax "Holy Grail" Amidst the Real Estate Meltdown
Interesting article in today's Wall Street Journal: Lennar's $800 Million Tax Refund, by David Reilly: Lennar Corp...

Reflections ...
This week Duncan Riley announced his new blogging venture, The Inquisitr (see my post here)...

Let's Rag Some More On China Joint Ventures
As regular readers of this blog know, we are not big fans of Chinese joint ventures...

Why Wireless is Crucial to Cable's Competitive Future
Cable rebounded from a failed mobile voice joint venture with Sprint-Nextel to form a new alliance with...

Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007
Strengthens examination requirements of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

I married American citizen 2 years ago and have conditional permanent resident status. The marriage has not gone well and my husband has left. What effect will filing for divorce have on my application to have conditions
Many visas, etc., involving spouses must be applied for by both spouses (for exa...

Mother left family property in stepfateher's name, Anyway to fight for it?
If deed is stated in step fathers name most likely it will stay that way....try ...

A judgement was issued against my ex and I, but they won't go after him. How do I make them?
unfortunately they don't care about the divorce agreement or papers, al the...

My sister and I own a home in joint name with rights of surviorship. We have both since married, she has chosen to live in the home with her new husband. My question is: 1) can I charge him rent separately 2) what do I n
Each state has different statues/laws... so it sorda depends on that.. But in my...

My daughters father, after being absent for 2 years, was just recently given joint legal with physical placement with me. I found out that his girlfriend, whom the judge in our case has to is not to be involved at all wi
Unfortunately, your daughter has two parents, and a matter such as this can be d...

Developer Investment
Raffaello Follieri agrees to $12 million joint venture settlement.

Joint Venture
Gallaher Group agrees to pay Reynolds American $387 million contract dispute settlement.

Stock Market Losses
alleging bad financial advice and conflicts of interest.

Mutual Fund Losses
alleging financial advisors breached fiduciary duties by not looking out for investors best interests.

Property Tax
City of Midland agrees to refund Midland Cogeneration Venture $36.2 million for over assessing land.

Bayer CropScience AG
alleging farmers suffered economic losses after Bayer's biotech Liberty Link rice was released into the food supply and countries banned US rice.