A judge on Monday approved the sale of bankrupt newspaper publisher Freedom Communications Inc to Digital First Media after the U.S. government argued a sale to Tribune Publishing Co would give it a monopoly on major newspapers in Southern California.
Freedom's bankruptcy filing in November opened the door to a $56 million bid by Tribune, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, to try to further expand in Southern California's newspaper market by picking up the privately held company's Orange County Register and Press-Enterprise of Riverside.
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The U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board can review claims of whistleblower retaliation even if they involve a government employee's entitlement to worker's compensation benefits, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday.
A federal judge in California has handed a win to homeopathic medicine maker Hyland's on two remaining claims in a class action accusing the company of misleading customers about the efficacy of nine products, ranging from headache relief to cramp treatment.
The late composer of a famous Egyptian song would not have wanted it associated with Jay Z's "vulgar, sexually explicit, misogynistic" hit single, "Big Pimpin'," an heir to the composer has told a federal appeals court in California.