Judge refuses harsh sentence for ex-HealthSouth CFO
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - A Birmingham judge refused on Thursday to send a former HealthSouth Corp.  chief financial officer to jail for his part in a massive accounting scandal, even after a U.S. Court of Appeals ordered a resentencing.
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A federal judge has temporarily  blocked outgoing UnitedHealth Group Inc.  Chief  Executive William McGuire from cashing in any of his  unexercised stock options and collecting his retirement pay.
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A judge found that the evidence did not support the conviction of a former N.Y.S.E. supervisor who once oversaw trading in General Electric stock.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.  - Former HealthSouth Corp. Chief  Executive Richard Scrushy ordered accounting executives to  falsify the company's books to meet Wall Street's earnings  targets, a former chief financial officer said in court on  Wednesday.
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A judge Friday refused to order a new trial to determine whether a severely brain-damaged Terri Schiavo would want to be kept alive artificially.
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A federal judge on Monday denied the city's request to limit the amount of damages it owes in the Staten Island ferry crash that killed 11 people and injured dozens of others in 2003.
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A High Court judge refuses to intervene in how a hospital administers treatment to a dying woman.
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A judge in a contentious right-to-die battle has refused to reconsider his ruling allowing a man to remove the feeding tube keeping his brain-damaged wife alive.
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A judge today rejected former Fannie Mae chief executive Franklin D. Raines's request that the government be compelled to begin a trial this month on administrative charges that he manipulated the company's earnings.
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A judge handling James Brown's contested fortune refused Friday to remove himself from the case despite an argument from the late soul singer's former trustees that he forced them to resign.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.  - A federal appeals court has  ruled that the formula used to determine light sentencing for a  former HealthSouth Corp. HLSH.PK executive was flawed and  sent the case back for re-sentencing.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A federal judge has scheduled jury selection in the fraud trial of fired HealthSouth Corp. chief executive Richard Scrushy to begin Jan. 5.
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A federal judge on Wednesday denied a motion for class-action status for personal injury and wrongful death cases involving Merck & Co.'s  withdrawn Vioxx painkiller.
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A federal judge on Thursday denied Bear Stearns bankruptcy protection for two failed hedge funds it managed, but granted the bank 30 days to refile.
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A judge on Tuesday denied the Federal Election Commission's request that she temporarily set aside a ruling striking down several government rules on political fund raising.
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Malcolm E. McVay, the former chief financial officer of the HealthSouth Corporation, avoided prison and was granted five yearsâ probation.
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A judge refused Wednesday to dismiss the case against a man charged with murdering the half-sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.