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Nation: Unsatisfied customer lowers amount in lawsuit against dry cleaners (The Herald Bulletin)
Tuesday June 05th 2007, 11:12 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge who was seeking $67 million from a dry cleaners that lost his pants has loosened the belt on his lawsuit. Now, he’s asking for only $54 million, according to a May 30 court filing in D.C. Superior Court. [News Source]

Amount in pants lawsuit lowered (AP via Yahoo! News)
Tuesday June 05th 2007, 10:45 pm

A judge who was seeking $67 million from a dry cleaners that lost his pants has loosened the belt on his lawsuit. [News Source]

Hearing Set for GOP Lawsuit Seeking Corzine-Katz E-mails (WPVI-TV Philadelphia)
Tuesday June 05th 2007, 10:04 pm

With New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine promising a fight to keep a governor's e-mail private, an August court date was set on a Republican lawsuit trying to make public e-mails between Corzine and a state union leader he dated. [News Source]

Brower Piven Announces the Filing of a Class Action Lawsuit Against Shuffle Master Inc. (SYS-CON Media)
Tuesday June 05th 2007, 10:02 pm

Brower Piven, A Professional Corporationannounces that a class action lawsuit has been commenced in the UnitedStates District Court for the District of Nevada on behalf of purchasers ofthe common stock of Shuffle Master Inc. (’Shuffle Master’ or the ‘Company’)(NASDAQ: SHFL) between December 22, 2006 and March 12, 2007, inclusive (the’Class Period’).

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Danone files US lawsuit against Wahaha (Financial Times)
Tuesday June 05th 2007, 7:55 pm

Danone has stepped up its campaign against Wahaha, its Chinese joint venture partner, by filing a lawsuit in the US against one of its subsidiaries and two people connected to it. [News Source]

Bank teller takes on CIBC in class-action lawsuit over alleged unpaid overtime (Canadian Business)
Tuesday June 05th 2007, 6:49 pm

Tobi Cohen June 5, 2007 - 6:34 p.m. Lawyer Douglas Elliott, left, speaks as Dara Fresco looks on. Two law firms have announced what they say is Canada's largest-ever class action lawsuit over unpaid overtime, targeting the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. [News Source]

Hearing set for GOP lawsuit seeking Corzine-Katz e-mails (phillyburbs.com)
Tuesday June 05th 2007, 6:14 pm

TRENTON, N.J. - With New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine promising a fight to keep a governor's e-mail private, an August court date was set on a Republican lawsuit trying to make public e-mails between Corzine and a state union leader he dated. [News Source]

Bank teller takes on CIBC in class-action lawsuit over alleged unpaid overtime (CP via Yahoo! Canada News)
Tuesday June 05th 2007, 6:05 pm

TORONTO (CP) - In what's being called a potentially precedent-setting case in Canada, a bank teller has taken on one of the country's biggest financial institutions with a class-action lawsuit that alleges CIBC fails to pay overtime to its customer service staff. [News Source]

Whole Foods, Wild Oats to challenge FTC lawsuit (USA Today)
Tuesday June 05th 2007, 3:41 pm

Whole Foods Market and Wild Oats Markets said Tuesday that they would challenge U.S. antitrust regulators that plan to file a lawsuit aimed at blocking the supermarket chains' proposed merger. [News Source]

Boulder-based natural foods grocer Wild Oats Market Incorporated says federal regulators will file a lawsuit to prevent … (KKTV 11 Colorado Springs)
Tuesday June 05th 2007, 3:13 pm

But Wild Oats' chairman and Chief Executive Officer Greg Mays says his company and Whole Foods will challenge any lawsuit that's filed, because they believe the merger will benefit the marketplace. [News Source]