Minneapolis Business Lawyer

Oprah Winfrey has been named as the defendant in a defamation suit being filed in Pennsylvania by Nomvuyo Mzamane, the former headmistress of a girls’ school Winfrey opened in South Africa a few years ago. The suit concerns comments Winfrey made to the South African press following a sexual abuse scandal at the school. A […]

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Journalist Arthur Kent of Calgary, Alberta in Canada has revealed the details of his defamation lawsuit against CanWest Publishing Inc. Kent ran as a Progressive Conservative candidate earlier this year in Alberta’s provincial elections.
According to Kent, several CanWest news periodicals published an inaccurate, biased and damaging article, but refused to print his rebuttal. The article […]

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Renovo Holdings Company has announced that they will enter into the beverage industry.  This appears to be an exciting move for the company as they have outlined specific goals for future.
The president of the company stated that the business intends to become a dynamic beverage company with product targeting specific Latin American markets […]

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UBS, the Swiss banking giant, made an agreement to settle charges that made against them from investor who bought auction-rate securities.  Investors believed that they were misled by UBS investment advisors who claimed that auction-rate securities were safe, cash-equivalent accounts.
 
The scandal is on-going involving many of the major financial firms from all […]

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Former California Representative Gary Condit lost a defamation case earlier this month.  Condit was suing Dominick Dunne for remarks he made on CNN’s Larry King Live regarding Condit’s involvement in the disappearance of Chandra Levy, a former Washington D.C. intern whose murder remains unsolved.

Dunne told guest interviewer Bob Costas, “I think he knows […]

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