A federal judge has ordered that a long-running legal battle over the creation of the 2003 Tom Cruise blockbuster “The Last Samurai” proceed to trial (Benay v. Warner Bros., U.S. District Court, Central District of California, Case # 2:05-cv-08508-PSG-FMO). The case was brought in 2005 by plaintiffs Aaron Benay and Matthew Benay, brother screenwriters who wrote a script also entitled “The Last Samurai”.
WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice today announced that it filed a notice with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss its antitrust lawsuit regarding the potential merger of Deutsche Börse AG and NYSE Euronext. The department said that the lawsuit and proposed settlement are no longer necessary since the parties have formally abandoned their plans to merge.
SAN FRANCISCO—David Boyer Prince was sentenced yesterday to seven years in prison and ordered to pay restitution on investment fraud related charges, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
BROOKLYN, NY—Following two weeks of trial, a federal jury in Brooklyn, N.Y., today returned guilty verdicts against Joseph Mazella, the founder and president of the Great Atlantic Group Inc., a Staten-Island based real estate and financial consulting company, on charges of securities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering. These charges arose out of the defendant’s operation of a Ponzi scheme that led to more than $14 million in losses. When sentenced by U.S. District Judge Carol B. Amon, the ...
