Additional provisions to a consent decree that imposed various constraints on Microsoft Corporation’s Windows operating system businesses have been extended until November 2009.
The Company is subject to a Consent Decree and Final Judgment that resolved lawsuits brought by the U.S.…
The arbitration demand in subrogation brought by insurers for Space Communications Corporation against Boeing Satellite Systems International, Inc. is still pending.
BSSI is The Boeing Co.’s subsidiary.
The arbitration hearing is scheduled to begin in October 2008.
The arbitration demand was served on…
The legality of the suspension of planting of YieldGard Corn Borer will be decided after a full hearing before the French Supreme Administrative court in late 2008, according to Monsanto Co.’s Form 10-K dated Oct. 23, 2008.
In March 2008, a…
The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, on Oct. 21, 2008, dismissed an appeal filed by stockholders over a dismissed consolidated stockholder derivative action against Mattel, Inc., styled In re Mattel, Inc. Derivative Litigation, according to the…
The arbitration requested by a group of insurance underwriters for Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications against the The Boeing Co.’s subsidiary, Boeing Satellite Systems International, Inc., is still pending.
The Request for Arbitration, which was filed on Sept. 10, 2004, before the International…
Amazon.com, Inc. continues to dispute the allegations of wrongdoing in the complaint filed against Audible, Inc., a subsidiary acquired in March 2008.
In June 2001, Audible, Inc. was named as a defendant in a securities class-action filed in United States…
Amazon.com, Inc. continues to face complaints filed in several states by two private litigants on behalf of the state governments under various state False Claims Acts.
Beginning in March 2003, the Company was served with complaints filed in several different…
Amazon.com, Inc. is pursuing an appeal of the lower court’s rulings in favor of Toysrus.com LLC. The Superior Court of New Jersey had ruled on terminating the contract, declining to award damages, and denying the Company’s motion to compel Toysrus.com…
ATMI, Inc., on July 11, 2008, entered into a global settlement agreement with Praxair, Inc. that resolved all actions between the two parties.
Under the agreement, the parties will be free to market and sell worldwide their respective mechanical, sub-atmospheric…
Celebrity Cruise Lines, Inc.’s lawsuit against Pentair, Inc.’s subsidiary Essef Corporation and certain of its subsidiaries was settled by payment of US$35 million to Celebrity in August 2008, a portion of which was covered by insurance.
On July 8, 2008,…