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USA TODAY Rosa Parks estate legal agreement revealedUSA TODAYBy Melanie Eversley, USA TODAY A secret legal agreement to settle the squabbles over the estate of late civil rights grand dame Rosa Parks has been make public by the Detroit Free Press. The news organization reports that the seven-page confidential …The secrets are out on deal [...]

NEW YORK – The liquidation company for bankrupt General Motors Corp. on Jan. 30 reached a $ 23.79 million settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to resolve environmental liabilities related to Superfund sites in three states (In Re: Motors Liquidation Company f/k/a General Motors Corporation, No. 09-50026, Chapter 11, S.D. N.Y. Bkcy.). View full [...]

PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Jan. 18 approved a consent decree in which CDS Investment Co., the owner of a Superfund site near Exton, Pa., agreed to reimburse the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency $ 13 million for response costs incurred in cleaning up contamination from volatile organic compounds at the property (United [...]

MILWAUKEE – A federal judge in Wisconsin on Jan. 11 awarded Wells Fargo Business Credit $ 750,000 plus prejudgment interest and costs against a defendant whom the judge earlier determined breached a series of subordination agreements when he accepted repayment on a $ 750,000 loan to a collection of borrowers with a Wells Fargo line [...]

WILMINGTON, Del. – The Los Angeles Dodgers and Fox Sports on Jan. 10 reached a broadcast agreement that will allow the sale of the baseball club to proceed and could hasten the end of the bankruptcy (In Re: Los Angeles Dodgers LLC, No. 11-12010, Chapter 11, D. Del. Bkcy.). View full post on LexisNexis® Mealey’s™ [...]

WILMINGTON, Del. – The U.S. bankruptcy judge in the District of Delaware presiding over the Chapter 11 proceeding of Friendly’s Ice Cream on Jan. 9 approved an agreement that will allow the restaurant to emerge from bankruptcy (In Re: Friendly Ice Cream Corporation, No. 11-13167, Chapter 11, D. Del. Bkcy.). View full post on LexisNexis® [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – An employment agreement that precludes employees from filing joint, class or collective claims concerning wages, hours or other working conditions unlawfully restricts employees’ “right to engage in concerted action for mutual aid or protection, notwithstanding the Federal Arbitration Act [FAA],” the National Labor Relations Board ruled in an opinion released Jan. 6 [...]

FRESNO, Calif. – A federal judge in California on Jan. 5 approved a consent decree in a suit involving California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) and two companies in which the companies agreed to reimburse the agency $ 1.5 million for remediation of a site that was contaminated by herbicides, pesticides and other agricultural [...]

Kansas City Star Bush education law offered great promise, but after 10 years, wide agreement …Chicago TribuneWASHINGTON (AP) — The No Child Left Behind education law was cast as a symbol of possibility, offering the promise of improved schools for the nation's poor and minority children and better prepared students in a competitive world. …A [...]

NEW YORK – Lyondell Chemical Co., which has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, on Jan. 4 moved for approval of a settlement with a group of antitrust claimants from Canada, which will limit the scope of antitrust litigation in two class actions filed [...]