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Jul. 8, 2015 at 1:15 am CDT

New York | Reuters — Jon Corzine and other former MF Global Holdings officials have reached a US$64.5 million settlement of litigation brought by investors seeking to hold them liable for the now-defunct futures brokerage’s 2011 bankruptcy. The all-cash settlement with Corzine, who was MF Global’s chief executive and previously […]

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Jul. 24, 2014 at 3:00 pm CDT

Reuters — A divided federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a U.S. Food and Drug Administration policy allowing the use of various antibiotics in animal feed, even if such use might endanger the public health. Reversing a lower court ruling, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York […]

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Sep. 13, 2012 at 8:56 pm CDT

ABC News was hit with a US$1.2 billion defamation lawsuit Thursday by a South Dakota meat processor that accused it of misleading viewers into believing a product that critics have dubbed "pink slime" was unsafe. Beef Products Inc. (BPI) sued over ABC reports aired in March and April about the […]

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