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H.F. Ahmanson & Co. didn’t get a ruling from a Delaware judge on the giant thrift’s request for an order to stop Great Western Financial Corp.’s special shareholder meeting June 13. Judge Jack B. Jacobs, who heard oral arguments in Delaware Chancery Court in Wilmington, indicated he would decide on the injunction request later. Meanwhile, Great Western reached a $6-million settlement with thousands of Florida customers who accused the company of conning them into investing in risky mutual funds. Great Western settled a similar suit in California for $17.2 million in February. . . . Troubled pharmaceutical concern Ivax Corp. plans to sell its Irvine-based McGaw unit for $320 million in cash, well below the $440 million it paid for the company three years ago. B. Braun of America Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Germany’s Braun Melsungen, will acquire McGaw.

The Irvine-based investment subsidiary of Edison International said it has acquired John Stewart Co., a residential property management firm with more than 10,500 units of affordable housing in its portfolio. Edison Capital did not reveal terms of its purchase of the San Francisco-based company, which has other offices in Sacramento and Santa Cruz and plans to open an office in Los Angeles. . . . Newbury Park-based DDL Electronics Inc. said it agreed to acquire Century Electronics Manufacturing Inc., a contract electronics maker based in Massachusetts, in a stock transaction worth about $50 million. . . . A Santa Cruz County Superior Court judge issued a temporary restraining order barring Tsukiji Farms of Watsonville from alleged unfair labor practices against strawberry workers but declined a request to reinstate 15 pickers who state authorities contend were not rehired this spring because of their union-organizing activities.