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Federal judge vacates ex-Enron CFO broadband conviction

February 1, 2007 08:27:00 AM

A federal district judge on Wednesday vacated the conviction of former Enron CFO Kevin Howard in light of an August 2006 opinion by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth...

January 25, 2007 02:00:00 PM

US District Court Judge Melinda Harmon on Wednesday granted a motion to dismiss seven defendants from the Enron shareholder derivative lawsuit , scheduled to go to trial in April. The lead plaintiff in the case, the University...

May 31, 2006 03:41:00 PM

A former Enron broadband executive was found guilty Wednesday on one count of falsifying records and conspiracy and three counts of wire fraud, and another was acquitted on the same five charges, one year after their...

May 22, 2006 08:37:00 PM

Jury deliberations began Monday in the retrial of two former Enron executives from the fallen company's broadband department. Former CFO Kevin Howard and senior accounting director Michael Krautz are being retried...

May 1, 2006 04:03:00 PM

The retrial of two Enron broadband executives on conspiracy and fraud charges is set to begin Tuesday, nearly a year after a jury acquitted five former executives on some charges and failed to reach...

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Enron and 'Managing' the Numbers

March 1, 2006 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Nancy Rapoport, dean of the University of Houston Law Center, says that as we watch witnesses at the trial of former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling continue to testify about Enron's earnings management, we should...

February 1, 2006 08:12:00 PM

Mark Koenig, former executive VP of investor relations at Enron , testified in the early stages of the prosecution case Wednesday that founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling , both...

November 10, 2005 03:51:00 PM

A federal grand jury has issued 31 new indictments against five former Enron executives, five months after their original case ended in acquittal and mistrial . Among those facing charges are Joseph Hirko, the former...

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Enron re-indictments [US DOJ]

November 10, 2005 02:01:00 PM

US v. Joseph Hirko and Rex Shelby, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, November 9, 2005 . Read the full text...

August 5, 2005 04:06:00 PM

Leading Friday's corporations and securities law brief, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) has agreed to pay Enron Corp. $250 million. The payment follows a a $2.4 billion settlement with Enron shareholders [JURIST...

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Line of Demarcation divides the New World between Spain and Portugal

On May 4, 1493, Pope Alexander VI promulgated the Line of Demarcation, dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal in response the return of Christopher Columbus from his discovery of the American continents. However, neither country was entirely satisfied with the placement of the Line. A year later on June 7, 1494, the two nations signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, which moved the Line of Demarcation further west, giving Portugal claim to Brazil.

Kent State student shootings precipitated lawsuits

On May 4, 1970, National Guardsmen at Kent State University opened fire on students protesting the US invasion of Cambodia, killing four.

Review a legal chronology of the Kent State shootings, from May 5, 1970 (the day the FBI investigation started) to January 4, 1979 (the day the state of Ohio reached an out-of-court settlement for $675,000 with victims and relatives of victims).