Judge Rejects Newsmax Bid to Narrow Smartmatic Lawsuit Over 2020 US Election August 24, 2023 By Tom Hals and Helen Coster A Delaware judge on Wednesday rejected Newsmax Media’s bid to narrow the allegedly defamatory statements that the right-wing U.S. television...
Tesla Directors Pay $735M to Settle Shareholder Lawsuit Over Excess Compensation July 18, 2023 By Tom Hals Tesla Inc.’s directors will return $735 million to the company to settle claims they grossly overpaid themselves in one of...
Lawsuit Dismissed Over McDonald’s Board’s Severance Pay to Fired CEO March 2, 2023 By Tom Hals McDonald’s Corp’s board cannot be sued for allowing former CEO Steve Easterbrook to keep tens of millions of dollars when...
U.S. Court Rejects J&J Bankruptcy Strategy for Thousands of Talc Lawsuits January 31, 2023 By Tom Hals, Mike Spector and Dan Levine A U.S. appeals court on Monday shot down Johnson & Johnson’s attempt to offload tens of thousands of lawsuits over...
Shareholders Can Sue McDonald’s Ex-Executive in Landmark Ruling January 26, 2023 By Tom Hals Shareholders can sue McDonald Corp’s former global chief people officer for the damage they claim he caused to the restaurant...
FTX Customers File Class Action to Lay Claim to Dwindling Assets December 28, 2022 By Tom Hals and Dietrich Knauth FTX customers filed a class action lawsuit against the failed crypto exchange and its former top executives including Sam Bankman-Fried...
Court Weighs Novel Issue of Crypto Ownership in Bankruptcy December 8, 2022 By Tom Hals and Dietrich Knauth A U.S. judge this week is considering for the first time the question of who owns bitcoin and other tokens...
FTX Was Run as ‘Personal Fiefdom,’ Faces Hacks and Missing Assets: Attorneys November 23, 2022 By Dietrich Knauth, Tom Hals and Tom Wilson FTX was run as a “personal fiefdom” of former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, attorneys for the collapsed crypto exchange said in...
Elon Musk Trial Opens to Decide Fate of His $56B Tesla Pay November 14, 2022 By Tom Hals A trial opened Monday over shareholder allegations that Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package was rigged...
Twitter Rejects Musk’s Claims That He Was Hoodwinked August 5, 2022 By Tom Hals Twitter Inc. on Thursday dismissed Elon Musk’s claims in a Delaware court filing that he was hoodwinked into signing the...