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A federal judge expressed “concern” that the U.S. scared off American International Group Inc. from joining a lawsuit by Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, its former chairman, challenging the insurer’s 2008 federal bailout.
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Nintendo Co., maker of the Wii video- gaming system, won a U.S. appeals court ruling that makes it harder for patent-licensing companies to seek an import ban on products as a way to demand royalties.
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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman told a court he won’t pursue damages against ex- American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Maurice “Hank” Greenberg in a lawsuit dating back to 2005.
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David Boies, the attorney suing the U.S. over American International Group Inc.’s bailout, said the firm’s takeover was an abuse of authority similar to firefighters seizing possessions they rescued from a flood.
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Argentina may learn at any time whether a U.S. appeals court will rule that it must pay $1.4 billion to holders of its defaulted debt, something the South American country has resisted for more than a decade.
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Covington & Burling LLP opened a Shanghai office, the law firm’s third office in Asia, led by corporate and securities partner Eva Wang and technology transactions and intellectual-property partner Weishi Li.
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The U.S. Supreme Court raised the prospect that it will decline to say whether the Constitution gives gays the right to marry, in an argument that revealed a chasm among the justices on one of the country’s most divisive issues.
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The trustee for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. ’s brokerage charged $12,600 to review documents outlining terms of its purchase by Barclays Plc , and now says he didn’t know what he was signing, according to a Barclays lawyer.
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Terra Firma Capital Partners Ltd. and Citigroup Inc. made closing arguments in their $2.2 billion fraud trial over the auction of EMI Group Ltd. , a case the judge called “a catfight between two rich companies.”
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Argentina’s claim that a U.S. court can’t tie its obligation to make defaulted bondholders whole to payments on restructured debt faced skepticism from judges as a lawyer for the country said it won’t obey orders to pay as much as $1.3 billion of defaulted sovereign debt.
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