Law
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California’s attorney general lost a bid Thursday to kill a suit by the California Chamber of Commerce, which challenged a requirement under Proposition 65 that certain businesses post warnings about the cancer risk associated with a chemical found in coffee and other foods… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Walmart announced Thursday that its new general counsel for international business will be an attorney with several years of experience working in Asia and Europe as an in-house lawyer for other major corporations, including Kimberly-Clark Corp. and Whirlpool Corp… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The National Black Farmers Association hit Monsanto with a lawsuit Wednesday in Missouri federal court, seeking to get the Bayer AG unit to stop selling its Roundup brand products, which the group says have been linked to cancer and other ailments… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Autonomy’s former chief financial officer lost a bid at the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday to nix a securities fraud conviction for lying about the British software company’s financials before Hewlett-Packard Co.’s $11.7 billion acquisition in 2011… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A Los Angeles fashion company under-invoiced imported clothes as a way of avoiding customs tariffs and laundering money, federal prosecutors said Wednesday as they announced Ambiance Apparel and its owner had agreed to plead guilty to the scheme and pay $118 million… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 