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May 21, 2009
World & Nation
Courts: The companies contend that the judge in the Minnesota case is biased against them.
March 12, 1998
Business
Litigation: Minnesota ruling, one of toughest against industry, cites a ‘conspiracy of silence.’
Dec. 17, 1997
Tobacco companies being sued in Minnesota must turn over 39,000 fiercely protected documents for use in the case against them, the state Court of Appeals ruled.
March 18, 1998
Litigation: Minnesota judge rules that penalties be imposed against major cigarette companies and five law firms for ‘willfully’ failing to produce documents.
Nov. 18, 1997
Courts: Outline of some documents suggests they offer best evidence of extent to which the industry suppressed products’ health hazards. Ruling is a major setback.
March 8, 1998
Trial: Minnesota justices decline to review document order; industry lawyers to seek stay.
March 28, 1998
Technology and the Internet
An administrative law judge for the Federal Communications Commission has denied 700 applications to provide radio paging services by four companies that he found were fronts for Graphic Scanning Corp., the nation’s largest paging company.
Jan. 11, 1985
Ticor Mortgage Insurance, facing a potential $166-million loss on mortgages and mortgage-backed securities that it insured for a Virginia real estate company, got permission from California regulators Thursday to become a separate company so that its financial woes won’t infect its healthy title-insurance business.
Sept. 6, 1985
Legislation is prompted by reports of pedophiles trolling popular ‘social networking’ sites.
May 12, 2006