Court opens files on Pritzker family&#39;s billions
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The Pritzker family lost a bid to keep the division of its $15 billion fortune secret Thursday, when the Illinois Appellate Court reversed an order sealing the family&#39;s court files.
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Swiss authorities have ruled that nearly $500 million in bank accounts tied to former Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha is of criminal origin and should be returned to Nigeria&#39;s government.
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A Cook County judge has agreed to drop  a case filed by the billionaire Pritzker family over the  breakup of its Hyatt Hotel chain fortune, after it backed off  under the threat of disclosure of its financial secrets, court  officials said on Friday.
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli government and several banks hold assets belonging to Holocaust victims worth more than $200 million, according a parliamentary report released yesterday that harshly criticized authorities for not doing enough to locate the accounts' owners.
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Confidential company documents obtained by a leading medical journal suggest that drug giant Eli Lilly &amp; Co. was aware that its antidepressant Prozac was linked to troubling
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Two young heirs to the Pritzker family empire can go forward with claims that relatives looted their trusts of more than $1 billion, a Cook County judge ruled yesterday.
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A judge on Wednesday ruled that  lawsuits accusing the Pritzker family, owners of the Hyatt  hotel chain, of emptying the trust funds of two heirs had merit  and a trial could begin in a year.
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The Justice Department has asked a  judge to enter a $2.53 billion judgment against two Rigas  family members, citing the amount it claims the Adelphia  Communications Corp. founders obtained illegally, court  documents released on Tuesday show.
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A German court on Thursday began considering a lawsuit seeking royalties from the heirs of German composer Richard Strauss for nine works, including opera favorites "Der Rosenkavalier" and "Elektra."
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REDWOOD CITY (BCN) -- Scott Peterson&#39;s mother took the witness stand this afternoon and testified that she gave him a large amount of cash the day before he was arrested in April 2003.
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Court cases that included use of the controversial Low Copy Number DNA testing technique are to be reviewed.
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John Hinckley Jr.&#39;s lawyer Barry Levine, left, leads the parents of John Hinckley, Jr., Jack Hinckley, right, and Jo Ann Hinckley, into court on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004 in Washington.
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E-mails seized by federal authorities identify the convicted founder of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative as a source in the San Francisco Chronicle&#039;s reporting on the steroids scandal, according to an online court filing that accidentally revealed confidential information.
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The family of an Iranian-American  dissident assassinated on Tehran's orders is entitled to  millions of dollars in assets owed to Iran by a California  defense contractor, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday.
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The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a pivotal case pitting copyright holders against the makers of file-sharing software.
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The trustee firm representing employee pension funds at United Airlines sought a court order today that the carrier be required to make up hundreds of millions of dollars
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Germany faced Friday what a police source described as its biggest tax evasion probe ever after "hundreds" of people, including prominent figures, were said to have hidden assets in Liechtenstein.