A former longtime dean of students at the University of Iowa is seeking to join a former general counsel in litigation against the university and a private law firm, among other defendants, over the manner in which the two men handled a 2008 student sexual assault investigation.
Last month, a Johnson County District Court judge dismissed the wrongful termination and defamation suit brought by Phillip Jones. But now he and his lawyer, David Dutton of Waterloo, are appealing, the Press Citizen reports.
They contend that by placing too much blame on Jones, university officials and the Stolar Partnership tortiously interfered with his future business opportunities.
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Procter & Gamble said Wednesday it is reevaluating a planned $2.35 billion sale of its Pringles business to Diamond Foods in the wake of an accounting scandal and related financial restatements at the latter company.
Last year, Diamond—whose brands include Pop Secret popcorn and Emerald nuts—said it would acquire the Pringles unit with a combination of assumed debt and $1.5 billion in stock. The close of the deal was delayed last year amid an internal Diamond investigation into the company’s prior financial statements.
On Wednesday, Diamond announced that the inquiry had uncovered about $80 million in payments to walnut growers during 2010 and 2011 that were booked in the incorrect periods. Diamond s
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‘How can people play around with the Fire Dept. and the police like this?’
Mamadou Sy and his wife, Assetou, have papers documenting more than 150 prank calls.
In the midst of celebrating a recent Islamic holiday, an upper Manhattan couple heard a familiar knock at the door.
It was the police — again.
For nearly two years, Mamadou and Assetou Sy have been the targets of an orchestrated campaign of more than 150 false emergency calls to their door at the Dyckman Houses in Inwood.
All of the calls — some came in the middle of the night — were bogus. Fake
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sought on Wednesday to stay away from the issue of how much he pays in taxes a day after acknowledging that his income tax rate is about 15 percent, but a key ally joined rivals’ calls for Romney to release his tax returns.
During a campaign speech in Spartanburg, Romney avoided mentioning the comment he made a day earlier that his income tax rate is “probably closer to 15 percent than anything,” making it lower than the rate paid by most wageearning Americans.
The remark put Romney, one of the wealthiest people to ever run for the White House, at the forefront of a national debate over the fairness of U.S. income tax rates.
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A lawyer convicted of a felony often loses his or her law license. But a former governor and attorney general of North Carolina had his suspended for two years after a federal campaign-finance reporting violation.
That will make Mike Easley eligible to practice again at the end of this year, the Charlotte Observer reported last week.
However, that possibly might not be the final answer, according to a subsequent article published on the Investigations blog of the News & Observer.
It says the North Carolina State Bar is going to correct some incorrect information on the disciplinary order suspending the former McGuireWoods attorney.
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