Legal, Economic & Regulatory Affairs News 2

• ' Outsourcing' and All that ...'
• "Comment: Does Judgment Trump Experience." Harvard Business School, Working Knowledge. (January 4, 2008)
• "Just in time" could use a "Just in Case"
• "Pop Goes the Weasel"
• 2007 Corn Harvest May Exceed Record Forcast
• A Bad Few Days for Limelight
• A Little Thought Can Go a Long Way
• A Painful Decision
• Acacia's Future
• Activist Group Goes After Botox
• ADAMS vs. PERRIGO IN RE: GUIFENESIN "MUCINEX SE 600mg" TABLETS
• Advanced Medical Optics; Is a no rub solution really the solution
• Aiming for the beaches....
• Algebris bid for Generali, a political issue
• Align v. Ormco: Some Implications of the Recent Federal Circuit Ruling
• All the Easy Stuff is Done
• Alternative fuels?
• Alternatives to Traditional Health Insurance Marketing
• Americans Want Bargains On Many Things But Surgery Isn't One of Them
• Amgen v. Roche: Jury Trial About to Begin
• An unexpected change of rules
• Analysis of India's new offshore derivative instrument policy - Somasekhar Sundaresan, J. Sagar Associates, attorneys
• And Racetracks and Cardclubs
• Another Example of Failure of the Credit Rating Model
• Appellate Court Invalidates 2nd-Generation Altace ® (ramipril) Patent 5061722
• Are Dot Coms sellers since Day 1?
• Are Securities Class Actions really on the decline?
• As Long As There is a Cure, Does it Matter Whether There Is a (Real) Ailment?
• Asbestos: WR Grace's Lost Criminal Appeal increases its potential exposure
• At last, Williams finds a buyer for its energy trading business
• AUDIT COMMITTEES IN NIGERIAN PUBLIC COMPANIES
• Australian Tax Office - on Private Equity
• Auto Labor Executive Quote Inconsistent with Traditional Industry Labor Relations Strategy
• Babcock and Brown Abandons Effort to Purchase Northwestern Corp.
• Bad News - Good News - Dunno
• Bank Accounting - Who Knows?
• Benefits of mortgage meltdown to bankcard industry
• Better times may lie ahead for Mexico
• Big LBO prompts changes at Kinder Morgan Inc.
• Billion Dollar Winners and Losers in California Casinos
• Biocrude breakthrough at least five years away
• Biofuels raising demand for soybeans
• Blackstone Deal Will Trigger Tax Increase on Hedge Funds
• Blackstone Equity Funds and Red China's new love for ' finance capital'
• Bloomberg: Less than Meets the Political Eye
• Bolivia Announces Imminent Nationalization of Telecommunications Company ENTEL.
• Bondholders Will Be Paid
• BP/BHP Billiton's deepwater Atlantis project begins pumping
• BRCM v. QCOM: ITC Delays Decision
• Broadcom v. Qualcomm: Settlement Now Unlikely
• Broadcom-Qualcomm-Nokia: A Double Edged Sword
• Broadwater LNG project to draw fierce opposition, Ocean-side project would have better chance
• Brokerage Agreements-To Appeal Or Not to Appeal/Another issue on what to disclosure
• Buffett's MidAmerican Energy examines nuclear power in Idaho
• Bumper crops lead to storage records as transportation lags
• Bush to WTO: Drop Dead
• Business tax reform: German Bundestag passes bill
• BYI Gets a Favorable Markman Result Against IGT
• BYI v. IGT: IGT Moves for Summary Judgment
• BYI v. IGT: Markman Decision Announced
• Cable Operators: Victims or Perpetrators of Anti-trust Violations
• Cablevision in Court; Tivo Watching
• Calpine Moves Closer to Bankruptcy Exit
• Calpine shuns buyout offers, submits revised bankruptcy exit plan
• Calpine to emerge from bankruptcy by early February
• Calpine's results improve, PGE joins opposition to bankruptcy exit
• CAN FCC CHAIRMAN MARTIN GO WHERE NO CHARIMAN HAS GONE BEFORE?
• Can newly amended REITs law of Korea activate the Korean real estate investment market?
• Can We Deliver on the Promise of Green Energy?
• Can we expect reforms to the Mexican fiscal reform?
• Canada gas production expected to fall; oil sands growth to slip
• Cap and trade is not enough -- because CO2 is different
• Capline buyout rumors denied
• Cartel: Probable; Provable, Only When All The EC Regulations Are Found Sane
• Central Bank Independence or Lack Thereof
• Change is the only real constant
• China – Pfizer wins another round in long-running VIAGRA battle
• China Product Health and Safety News Raises Bigger Issues
• China Quality Control Problems are of Little Consequence
• China Will Strongly Fight the "Indexing of Iron Ore Prices", One Way or Other
• China's Rare Earth Minerals Support Common Japanese High Technologies
• Class Action Certification- Is it simply a matter of Numbers?
• Class Actions-Paxil Settlement, maybe not the best resolution for consumers!
• Clinton helps Verizon move one step forward towards breaking cables strong hold on apartment dwellers.
• Coal plants delayed as capacity deficit looms
• Coal-to-fuel shows promise in North Dakota
• Coca Cola gets Vitamin boost!
• Coca-cola needs to watch out its claims if it is to shake up the functional food niche market
• Columbia Sussex's Nevada License at Risk
• Comeback: Leo Kirch Back on Track
• Company Complains of Precipitous S&P Action
• Competition, Free-Market, Determines Retail Pricing
• Concern grows over storage for record corn harvest
• Confusion Reigns as Capitol Hill Awaits Details of Plan
• Consideration of Issues of "Public Interest"
• Construction begins on off-shore Massachusetts LNG project
• Consumer Directed Health Care goes global in medical tourism
• Consumer Product Safety Legislation Creates New Perils for Imports
• Content is King, But What Shall Be Its Domain?
• Contingent Commissions-Once an Accepted Practice .
• Contracts Coming to Kansas, Competition to Missouri
• Controversy Bred By Under-Regulation: Are Genes Too Casual?
• Corn Squeezings - The hidden, and not so hidden costs, of the diversion of corn crops for ethanol.
• Corporate Governance/Sarbanes-Oxley:Loosening the Knot
• Corporate Suicide
• 'Could vs. Should'
• Countervailing duties on Chinese paper by the USA: Some micro and macroeconomic issues.
• Court Will Void Compacts, But Tribe Will Keep Slots
• Create more use through new technoloy. We really have a shortfall in designed useage.
• Crude Oil Prices and the US Economy
• Cultural Differences Between Securities Firms and Money Center Banks
• DaimlerChrysler - are the divorced companies heading for a fresh start?
• Dancing with Israeli Energy
• Deciding for the Undecided
• Decline in T&T Gas Reserves: Will Decline Impact Atlantic Basin LNG?
• Delaware regulators compel wind power purchase
• Deploying the Right Instruments at the Right Time: A Central Banker's Job
• Differing Perceptions of Guest Satisfaction by Market
• Direct-To-Consumer Marketing may be saving my life.
• Dispatchability and Transmission Key to Renewable Power Economics
• District Energy allows for economies of scale, greater efficiency and outsourcing
• Does anybody really need a hedge fund?
• DOJ Expands War of Intimidation on Interent Gambling
• Don't throw the baby out with the bath water
• Don't Try To Count the White House Reversals
• Don't underestimate the resiliency of coal power
• Dow's increasingly relevant uncertainty: what is to come next?
• DTE to focus on utility businesses; Atlas makes unconventional gas play
• Duke Reports first results since Spectra spinoff
• Duke seeks recovery of lost revenues in new energy efficiency plan
• Dynegy seeks first annual profit since 2001
• Easy Credit and the Propensivity to Save
• eBay's Tie-Up with Yahoo Japan Just Ties Up eBay
• EC Finally Started the "Post Microsoft" Rally; However, Too Little and Too Late
• Edison benefits from non-regulated Edison Mission Group
• EED is clearly the wave of the future
• El Paso just misses first quarter expectations, excluding one-time events
• Electronic Evidence Discovery has emerged as a rising profit center for many vendors.
• Elimination of mandatory arbitration: Implications for an already challenged credit market
• Elk ! Nuclear Power for Shtokman Energy
• Entire Tobacco Industry Must Take Notice At Three Judge Panel Ruling In MInnesota
• enviromentalism, a new way of rent-seeking behavior
• EON moves into Russian electricity market
• EPA/Transportation to move quickly on CAFÉ and Renewable Fuels Standard
• EU unlikely to follow suit on minimum prices anytime soon
• Europe antitrust threats to MA & Visa interchange
• European Court of Justice to decide on new sports betting cases after the Placanica decision
• European Court of Justice to decide on new sports betting cases after the Placanica decision
• Evaluating Litigation Early On -- A Key to Strategy
• Every System Has Incentives
• Expectations, Home Prices, and Uncertainty - Oh My!
• ExxonMobil proposes East Coast Offshore LNG facility
• FACTA's Billion Dollar Problem
• Factual Pulse of Central Asian Energy Market
• Fair competition
• FDA -- Should Focus on Results/Benefits of Products to Consumers
• FDA & Buckman v. Recent Tests of State-Law Claims Preemptions
• FDA may give Pharmaceutical companies some discretion in labeling.
• FDA… Today, Not Enough Regulation. Tomorrow, Too Much.
• FDA-More ammunition, more pharmaceutical companies targeted
• Fed Action Will Cause Problems Later
• Federal Court Affirms Forest Labs' Lexapro® Patent Win Over Ivax & Cipla
• Federal Tax Court on the taxation of compensation payments
• Fed's Fiscal Stimulus ... as usual, addressing only the symptoms!
• Fiction, Reality or Just Politics
• Finally a fiscal reform coming up in Mexico
• Financial Regulators Persist in Recycling Models That Have Repeatedly Failed
• First West Coast LNG Terminal Expected On-Line Early 2008
• Floating? In a Short Future a $100 p/b Will Be Seen As a Miracle of Low Pricing
• Follow-on biologics (generics) legislation moves forward in Senate
• Forcing NASA to Meet Budget Constraints Is Good for the Space Agency
• Ford in Romania: EU's Meddling in Affairs That it Did Not Understand Nor Wanted To
• Foreign investors can seek redress in US by way of Securities Class Actions
• french election. What is the menu for tomorrow while the chef is being hired.
• From this acorn, a mighty tree may rise
• Funds make bid for Calpine shares as value falls
• Gas hydrate has vast potential as fuel source, if obstacles can be overcome
• German Corporate Tax: payout of the tax credit modified
• German Supreme Tax Court allowed for the deduction of interest payments on a loan used to finance the acquisition of shares even after the shares are contributed into another corporation
• German utility may buy stake in U.S. LNG company
• Germany's competition authority prohibits Phonak’s takeover of GN ReSound
• Global Instability Threatens Investors
• Good News For Drug-eluting Stent Makers
• Google at $600 a share? Not a huge leap
• Google v. Viacom : Ramifications
• Google's Boo-Boo in Australia
• Grain Storage and Transporation Problems Continue
• Greenhouse Gas Decision will Result in Dramatic Increase in Economic Regulation
• Greenspan reignites old Mexican energy debate
• Growing Inflation in Russia
• Growing merchant opposition to interchange
• Hard Bargaining in the Doha Round Negotiations
• Harrahs's Buyout Will Be Sooner Rather Than Later
• Has Chavez rewritten Rousseau?
• Health Care Reform: No More Room But Compromise
• Housing as an indicator of economic slowdown.
• Housing Crisis, Credit Debt Imperils Retail Sales
• How Strong is Sandisk's Patent Portfolio?
• How to protect documents covered by the legal professional privilege from the European Commission
• Huge 2007 Grain Harvest Increases Storage and Transportation Prices
• If it can be conceived by man, it can be defeated by another man.
• IGT v. BYI: Shifting the Fight to the Patent Office
• Impact of Medical "Tourism" (Outsourcing) on the US Health Care System
• Implications for QCOM of the Verizon Settlement with BRCM
• Implications of $100 Oil for Producers (and Consumers)
• Implications of Monetary Policy Action of 1/22
• Implications of the Third Circuit Decision
• Incentives Push Natural Gas as Quick Fix
• International Energy Agency's Warning on the Coming Global Crunch
• Internet copyright infringement - illegal downloading - japanese anime - odex
• Internet Gaming In 2010, But Not Before
• Internet Radio - RIP
• Intrigue Persists As Regulators Press Monoline Bailout
• Invesxting in Rusisan electricity
• Is Enron Saga Entering the Final Chapter?
• Is Insurance the Solution? Depends on What is the Problem.
• Issue of sub-judice?
• It appears the Fixed Rate Tax for business will become a reality.
• Italian government fights hard for ENI on Kazakhstan
• Italian Parliament wants to help to Lottomatica, Snai
• Italian political crisis has impact on many financial deals
• Italian Senate to approve Reform of Popolari banks
• ITC Delay: Likely Bad News for QCOM
• ITC STAY OR NOT, THE 'BROADCOM-QUALCOMM' LITIGATION WAR MAY CHANGE THE INDUSTRY FOREVER
• Japan moves ahead on gas hydrate exploration
• JNJ's Definitive TOPAMAX(R) Win Over Mylan Labs
• Johnson & Johnson trademark defense
• July 2007 Election in Japan: Reform Voted In Or Out?
• Jury to Decide BRCM Patent Case in Next Few Days
• Kansas Regulators Reject Coal Plant for CO2
• Katrina Insurance Issues-A possible blessing in disguise?
• Katrina-Are Insurance Carriers paying what they are supposed to?
• Kazakhstan in a global context
• Kazakhstan's Energy Future and Global Energy Issues
• KSR In-Depth: Understanding the Implications
• KSR is important, but it will not very much more difficult to obtain and defend patents
• Latest Developments on foreign investment in South African real estate
• Latest expansion of Elba Island LNG moves ahead
• Law and Order: SIV -- Intrigue in MS Case
• Lawyers are not exempt from evolving in practices.
• Lawyers, Clients, Tecnology and how to keep the perspective.
• Lead Paint Litigation still on the upswing
• Lead Paint Litigation;Light at the end of the tunnel?
• Lead Paint-Despite Millions in Exposure Sherwin Williams Continues to Expand
• Lessons Learned from The Dr. Folkman "Controversies"
• Limelight IPO: Patent Litigation Makes Timing Suspicious
• Limelight v. Akamai: The Trial
• Limited Progress in US-China Talks
• Long run sustainability of the Indian Railways
• Looking for a New Global Economic Paradign to Replace "Free Trade"
• Macau is not Las Vegas
• Major Competition Comes Early to Macau
• Major Good News for Biotech Firms (Bad News For Generic Hopefuls)
• Martin's Media Ownership Battle--Can he succeed where Powell failed?
• Material Adverse Effects vs. Business Risks
• Medtronic Held to Infringe Abbott's Lau Stent Patents
• Merger review implications of the antitrust immunity in Credit Suisse v. Billing?
• Mexican airports, a Corvette pulling an 18 wheeler
• Mexican Telecoms at the Supreme Court
• Mexico dismantles its Radio and TV Law
• Mexico´s Legislation on Radio/TV and Telecom: What´s next?
• Microsoft May Be Floundering, but Big Banks Are Lost
• Microsoft v. European Commission: a victory for innovation & for the consummer
• Milan Malpensa airport looking for a non-European partner
• Mirant posts net loss after hedges included
• Model risks in the international financial markets
• Monetary Policy Success at a Price!
• Monolines Have No Federal regulator
• More evidence of grain storage problems
• More steps needed to meet Bloomberg's 2030 goal for reducing emissions
• More than just the fate of Microsoft riding on the European Court's decision
• Morgan Stanley invests in urban renewable energy
• Mortgages versus Credit Cards: Shift in Consumer Perception
• Multilateral negotiation over the GM VEBA
• Muni-Bonds-Taxing the Interest, Katie bar the door.
• Musicians Sing an Old Son g - It's Money That I Want
• NAFTA framework and Double Taxation would be impacted by the Mexican Tax Reform
• Neurontin® (Gabapentin) Patent Trials - Pfizer Victory Remains Possible
• New anti-terror proposals may bring more stability to the UK
• New Avandia Study Will Do Little To Tip The Scale Against GSK Drug
• New Bush Administration Suits go to the Heart of Chinese Piracy and Economy
• New Cancer Drug: The Way Forward
• New fiscal reform does not bring major changes to Pemex
• New Group Bets on Court to Fight Internet Gambling Ban
• New oil refinery a possibility in South Dakota
• New Tariffs on Chinese Paper? The Bark May be Worse Than the Bite
• Niigata Nuclear Accident Compounds Anti-Nuclear Sentiment
• Nokia v. QCOM: Delays in Delaware
• NorthWestern Energy vows to go it alone; Q2 results improve
• Nothing New Under The Sun
• NRG Files Application For New Nuclear Power Plant
• Number of services given is not the same as quality
• Obviously, Just a Standard Small Dip on the Short Business Curve
• One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
• Online Gambling in Mexico: A Safe Bet
• Only one of three big Alaska oil giants submitted bid on new gas pipeline
• Onshore LNG projects face stiff opposition, offshore projects progressing
• Outsourcing: Comment on Nitish Grover Dev Kar, CEO, Kar Consulting Group
• Paint Industry Needs Global Lead Settlement Quickly
• Palm Oil-Based Biodiesel Shows Promise and Peril
• Patent Trolls Take a Hit at the Supreme Court
• Petitions won't mean much.
• Petropolitics in Venezuela - An Approach to Appropriate Investment Risk Management
• Philips GE, and Siemens, are just a few companies that may be affected by study on cancer risk of CT scans
• Pinault unlikely to enhance takeover offer for Puma
• Pirated Software in South Asia
• Place Your Bets? - Frank Talk on Allowing Internet Gambling
• Plenty of oil, but political will? Not so much.
• Poland Still Good For FDI Despite Quarrelsome Foreign Policy
• Political motives in an election year
• Populism strikes again in call for more regulation by Fed
• Porsche bids for Volkswagen but has no intentions
• Porsche Seeks Full Control of Volkswagen
• Porsche’s bid for Volkswagen
• Potential Fines and Penalties for Energy Transfer Partners
• Pre-emption:A litigation shield for many companies in State Court.
• Preparing for Visto v. RIM
• Price Controls in the Indian Economy?
• Private Equity Could Be Part of Answer As Big Banks Consolidate
• Private Equity Firms use Insurance to enhance Buying and Selling Companies
• Proposed EU Telecom Legislation - An Overview
• Protectionism in any Form Does Not Work
• Putin-Medvedev Russian Succsion: Good for Investors?
• QCOM v. BRCM: Injunction Likely in Santa Ana
• QCOM v. BRCM: Why Willful Infringement is a Red Herring
• QCOM v. NOK: Keeping Track of the Arbitrations
• QCOM v. NOK: Decision Looming at ITC
• QCOM/BRCM: New Trial Unlikely in Santa Ana
• QCOM: BRCM and NOK Fights Drag On
• QCOM: Thinking Strategically about Arbitration
• QCOM: What is Merrill Lynch Thinking?
• Railroads need not be concerned by the STB's CP/DM&E procedural order.
• Rambus Under Fire
• Rambus Update: Worry about the EC
• Rambus: Another Step Toward the January Trial on JEDEC
• Rambus: Game On
• Rating Agencies Criticized for Tardy Downgrades
• RCTV Shutdown
• Record Grain Harvest Strains Transportation and Storage Infrastructure in North America
• Record harvest straining grain storage and transportation infrastructure
• Refinary Blast and Safety Focus
• Reforms at last - but at a cost
• Regulation on hedge funds in Germany
• Regulators Have Found Their Niche
• regulators WILL review TXU deal
• Reimbursement for infection control
• Report Slamming FDA May Be Just What The Doctore Ordered for FDA
• Reports of Internet Radio's Death May be Exaggerated
• Republican Orthodoxy Is Out of Line with Reality and the Flow of History
• RIPENING INHIBITORS: ROSY FUTURE OR BRUISED FRUIT?
• RiskMetrics IPO Raises Intriguing Questions
• Role of Dollar in this Analysis
• Russian Geo-Politics in Full Swing: Gazprom’s Shtockman Landed Norway & France
• S&L Debacle Is Repeating
• safety Fee on Imported Food Is a Good Idea
• Sandisk Will Overcome This Issue
• Saving Lives and Saving Money Are Not Necessarily the Same
• Scott Pullins: Table Games Legalized in PA in 12 Months?
• Scott Pullins: Ohio Skill Game Operators Get Short Reprieve
• SEC looks into yet another venture; Market Funds!
• Selling the airports is not always the right way to go.
• Senate Banking Committee Chairman Dodd Proposes Buying Distressed Mortgages
• Senate Banking Committee Chairman Dodd Vows Early Action To Curb ILCs
• Senator Rockefeller Takes a Punch at TV Violence
• Setback for Clean Coal in Minnesota, Progress Elsewhere
• Short memory or no memory?
• Siemens Fined in Bribery Scandal
• Siemens names new CEO – and still faces great challenges
• Siemens’ past, presence and future
• Sifting In Search of Bounce Backs Is Perilous
• Silicon Graphics v. ATI: Summary Judgment Pending
• Skepticism about Gazprom
• So far, only one major change to Mexican Radio-TV and Telecom Laws
• Soft Spots in GSE Case
• Solar power held back by economics, not politics
• Some Thoughts on Trucking Free Trade and Sovereignty
• Source of Premature Rumors of Monoline Bailout Decries Rumors
• Southern Union's earnings fall but exceed expectations
• Spanish Utility Iberdrola to Buy Energy East
• Spectra Energy posts first results as an independent company
• Sports Betting Would Bring in Millions, but the Odds Are Against It.
• States battle one another over stealth "carbon tax"
• Stay orders in judicial proceedings
• Steady As She Goes: Why the Fed's Decision to Leave Rates Alone Was Correct
• Stimulus Package Is a Mistake
• Stoneridge: SEC 10(b) exposure for a third party may remain an unlikely event!
• Strange Bedfellows : US and EC Raiding Mostly Swiss Freight Forwarders in Cartel Probe
• Strike Two For SANDISK
• Sub Prime; the Positive Affects!
• Subprime issues will bring many more financial consultants within cross hairs!.
• Suez unit cleared to begin construction of off-shore LNG port
• Supreme Tax Court: A deferred item must be dissolved if within a tax group the controlling company sells its shares of the subsidiary company
• Surface Transportation Board Proposes Revising Railroad Cost of Capital Methodology
• TD is Aggressive Innovator
• Telmex will move into cable TV against all odds
• Thai tycoon brings dubious innovation to the world of sports: local politics accross borders!
• The banking crisis is already here and it's here to stay!
• The Dysfunctional Russo-Belarussian Marriage and European Energy Supplies
• The Electronic Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost
• The Federal Circuit's application of KSR within Life Sciences is bad news for Branded Pharmaceuticals.
• The Fight over Ripping Music at Home
• The Impact of Local UAW Negotiations on National Bargaining
• The Implications of a Possible Santa Ana Retrial in QCOM v. BRCM
• The Importance of the FDA's Stance on Merck's (and now GSK's) OTC Mevacor
• The ITC Decision Looms, and QCOM Asks for One More Delay
• The Larger Problem is the Belarus Alliance with Iran and Venezuela
• The Legalization of U.S-China Trade Disputes
• The Mexican Fiscal Reform will bring an Avalanche of Lawsuits
• The Necessity of Completing the Doha Round
• The new law about foreign investments was presented by Russian Federal Government.
• The NORVASC® Battles Continue (Even After Federal Circuit Opinion)
• The Paradoxes of Sino-American Energy Relations
• The possibility of a narrow holding favoring state claims.
• The Pullins Report - Gaming Company with Ohio Ties Sold at Premium
• The Pullins Report - Ohio Governor, AG Reverse Course on Gaming
• The Pullins Report - Ohio's Highway System is Seriously Outdated
• The QCOM/BRCM Endgame
• The real stake in Mexico through the Tax Reform, will be to prove whether or not our Political System can work.
• The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is now going after Personal Use:
• The Recycling Function of Private Equity Funds
• The Supreme Court under Roberts: Implications for Business Cases and Tort Reform
• The trip by United States HHS official Rich McKeown to the PRC may only result in mutual PR.
• The U.S. PTO: “The GlaxoSmithKline Made the Patent-Application Process More Efficient”
• The UAW Strike Against GM - Why Did it Happen?
• The UAW Strike an the need to Reform Health Care
• The UAW-Dana Retiree Health Insurance VEBA: Implications for the U.S. Auto Industry Bargaining
• The ubiquity of pirated software
• The unwelcome End for Confused Retailers
• The US economy in 2007: The case for a soft landing
• The War for Competition in Mexican Telecoms
• The World economic imbalances , and the currency and interest rate movements
• There are currently no hurdles to foreign investors in South African real estate
• This Is Not Convincing
• This is only ONE of the fears in Texas over the TXU deal
• Thomson, Bloomberg and market segmentation
• Time Will Tell Re Monoline Model
• Timex is an Excellent Business Partner
• Tivo v. Echostar: Decision Coming
• To Tax or not to Tax Muni Bonds, that is the question!
• Tobacco Litigation has a split of authority in New York
• Too little too late!
• Too much information / not enough knowledge
• Transrapid Floats Toward Munich
• Trash companies are denied use of railroad preemption provision
• TSRA: An Important Fight at the ITC
• Turkey's AML/CTF Program Found Lacking
• Turmoil in the Mexican Telecommunications Industry
• TVA Board Votes to Apply for New Nuclear Plant
• Two hands are better than one for China, at least for now
• Two hands are better than one for China, at least for now
• TXU - to find the problem, look in the mirror
• Tyco Securities Settlement-Clouding the issues leads to Thunderstorms
• UAW Negotiations and a Model of Healthcare Reform
• UAW wages
• Underage gambling and Macau law
• Upon Whom does GM unload its health care burden?
• US Banks are feeling the sting of under reserving.
• US China Trade War? Probably Not.
• US housing slump and the effect on US and the world.
• US image improving in Iran so less likely to risk overt action
• US RECESSION IS PROBABLY THE BEST WAY TO INSTALL A SUSTAINABLE HIGH GROWTH OF ASIA ECONOMIES
• US subsidies are easy targets in WTO litigation, with the expiration of the peace clause
• US Treasury and IRS provisionally accept new Mexican tax under bilateral tax treaty
• USA costs foreign gambling industry US$ 30billion
• USDA Raises Corn Crop Estimate to 13.3 Billion Bushels
• USDA Raises Estimate of Record Corn Harvest
• Using patent law to protect market share not intellectual property
• Utility M&A in Italy is a political game for Iride and Hera
• V.Chaplygin "Strong dollar for the world economy, weak euro for Europe, high prices for metals"
• VEBA in Auto Industry a Tricky Business
• Verizon, AT&T and RCN winners if FCC bans exclusive contracts in apartment buildings.
• Verizon's regulatory strategy for capturing cable's premium customers.
• Viva Castro, Mao Wins
• Wal-Mart to have Negligible Impact on Financial Services Sector
• Warren Buffet's Junk Bond Utility Bet
• We love to hate the Airlines!
• What are Calpine's Prospects, Post-Bankruptcy?
• What can be done about "climate-change" and economic downturns to sustain the world's well-being?
• What Happens When "Just In Time" Doesn't Arrive?
• What Has Changed Since Enron?
• What's behind the Calpine bankruptcy delay?
• Where are all the Securities Lawyers Going?
• WHO Declares Global War on Tobacco
• Who needs Rudy, Mitt, or Hilary? We've Got Bloomberg!
• Who Will Miss the Doha Round?
• Who Will Win the Internet Radio Battle? Tune in Tomorrow
• Whole Food's Statements Create Difficulties for the Wild Oats Deal
• Will BBI's purchase of NorthWestern Energy be completed?
• Will it deliver the expected outcomes?
• Will Mexico’s New Plans for Airport Competition fly?
• Will new draft Law restrict foreign investment in Russia?
• Will Sarkozy stop the rise of the Euro?
• Will this Fiscal Stimulus Actually Stimuluate?
• Will Visa's proposed restructure and IPO reduce its global legal exposure?
• With ILC Bill in Limbo, Options Are Open To Commercial Firms
• Wood: No Problem; Political Environment is, However, Another Story in Africa
• WR Grace- Will they ever emerge from bankruptcy soon, smelling like a rose?
• WTO TELLS US NO HEDGING BETS WITH ON-LINE GAMBLING
• WWE ON THE MAT, BUT NOT DOWN FOR THE COUNT AGAINST JAKKS PACIFIC
• Yes, KSR v. Teleflex really IS as significant as everyone says it is.