West Palm Beach News
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A second wave of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart PC lawyers, mostly associates, have left the firm for Littler Mendelson LLP as part of an earlier group of departures led by Don Prophete.
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William Koch lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit by a former Oxbow Carbon & Minerals LLC executive alleging the billionaire held him captive at his Colorado ranch.
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Britain’s new banking regulator has rattled lenders by holding off disclosing how much capital each firm will have to raise after ordering the industry to plug a 25 billion-pound ($38 billion) shortfall by the end of the year, three people with knowledge of the discussions said.
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A 79-year-old widow who pleaded guilty in the largest individual case since a U.S. crackdown on offshore tax evasion began received less than a minute of probation from a judge who scolded prosecutors.
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Inventors who want to emigrate from their native countries put the U.S. as their top destination, according to economists at the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva.
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The city of West Palm Beach, Florida, has no plans to restart a $37 million wastewater treatment plant that hasn’t run since September, according to The Palm Beach Post.
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Billionaire William Koch won a fraud lawsuit in which he claimed a consigner sold him 24 counterfeit bottles of wine from France’s Bordeaux region and may get punitive damages as the jury resumes deliberations.
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MagicJack VocalTec Ltd., whose founders pioneered voice-over-Internet technology, rose to the most expensive level in three months after Chief Executive Officer Gerald Vento signaled plans to buy back more shares.
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Billionaire collector William Koch, after waging a $17 million legal battle over 24 bottles of counterfeit Bordeaux, was awarded $12 million in punitive damages by jurors, some of whom shook his hand after court.
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Salomon Melgen, the Florida political donor at the center of a criminal probe, said he and Senator Robert Menendez are “like brothers” who spoke weekly, yet his companies never benefited and he broke no laws.
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