Galleon Group hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam denied any wrongdoing Sunday, promising to fight charges brought against him in one of the US government's largest insider trading cases to date. Rajaratnam was arrested Friday...
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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating IBM for allegations of antitrust violations stemming from their sales of mainframe computers, according to Wednesday media reports. Competitors allege that IBM is dominating the mainframe computer market [NYT...
Fair or Foul? Inheritance-Driven Adult Adoption Within Same-Sex Partnerships
JURIST Guest Columnist Terry Turnipseed of Syracuse University College of Law says that the increasing frequency of adult adoption within same-sex partnerships as a means of ensuring the receipt of inheritances may have set in motion an irreversible legal freight...
Federal judge denies motion to dismiss apartheid lawsuits against US companies
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) on Wednesday denied in part a motion to dismiss lawsuits against some companies accused of assisting South Africa's apartheid-era [JURIST...
JURIST Guest Columnist Virginia Keyder, currently teaching European Union law at Bogazici University and Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey, says that while the European Commission, aided most recently by the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice, has taken...
Former HP executive pleads guilty to revealing IBM trade secrets
A former vice president for Hewlett Packard (HP) pleaded guilty Friday to one count of theft of trade secrets for giving HP protected information he obtained while working for IBM [corporate...
Federal appeals court allows apartheid claims against companies to proceed
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Friday that US courts have jurisdiction under the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) to hear certain tort claims brought by apartheid victims against...
Kathi Cooper et al. v. IBM Personal Pension Plan et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, August 7, 2006 . Read the...
Seventh Circuit rules IBM cash-balance pension plan not age discrimination
IBM did not discriminate against older workers by adopting a cash-balance pension plan, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled Monday. A unanimous three-judge panel reversed a 2003 district court decision [PDF...
Microsoft posts EU antitrust defense as rival companies file new complaint
Microsoft Thursday made a symbolic response to a new antitrust complaint filed with the European Commission by IBM, Oracle, Sun Microsystems and six other companies by taking the unusual step of posting online its full...