According to Economics professor Roger Noll for former college basketball player and lead plaintiff Ed O'Bannon, the National Collegiate Athletic Association's model bars universities from seeking the best players for their teams and also has control over the amount and value of the scholarships awarded to student athletes aside from barring them from marketing their own selves.
Justice Peter Hall of the New South Wales Supreme Court ruled in favor of the operators of the now-shuttered Coco Roco restaurant over an unfavorable review by a food critic for the Sydney Morning Herald.
A report by investigator Anton Valukas commissioned by automaker General Motors Co indicated that lawyers had earlier on warned the company of paying potential punitive damages if accident victims decided to go to trial over the ignition defects in their cars.
Prosecutor David Perry described the Hong Kong High Court yesterday the purported elaborate scheme that billionaire brothers Thomas and Raymond Kwok has employed to ensure the illicit payments made to former senior government official Rafael Hui, who was still connected with the city government at the time of the payments, Bloomberg reported.
