Tina Brozman, 54, Former Judge and Bankruptcy Law Innovator, Dies
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The former chief judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York helped change international bankruptcy law.
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HOLLYWOOD, Florida  - Anna Nicole Smith, the small-town Texas girl turned voluptuous Playboy Playmate who became a tabloid fixture while fighting all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court over the estate of her billionaire husband, died suddenly at the age of 39 on Thursday.
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A former Brocade Communications Systems Inc. executive who was convicted in a landmark stock options case won't get a new trial, despite a key prosecution witness recanting parts of her testimony, a judge ruled Wednesday.
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Former Brocade Communications Systems CEO Gregory Reyes has been sentenced to 21 months in prison and a $15 million fine for fraud related to backdating of the storage networking company&#39;s stock options.Reyes was convicted last August&#160;in the most prominent of many criminal and civil cases in the past two years related to backdating by high-tech companies. Apple, McAfee, Rambus, and scores of other vendors have faced either internal or external probes. Reyes&#39; conviction was the first by the U.S. Department of Justice in a backdating case. Reyes was found guilty on 10 charges including securities fraud, conspiracy and falsifying financial records. He could have faced as much as 20 years in prison.The sentencing order on Wednesday from Judge Charles Breyer of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has been stayed pending an expected appeal, which has not yet been filed, according to the court.Backdating, which involves changing the date that stock options grants were made to certain employees so they can later get a bigger profit, is not illegal but has to be accounted for properly. Many high-tech companies used the practice during the Internet boom early in this decade to attract prized employees.In the wake of Brocade&#39;s backdating problems, the company restated its results from 1999 to 2004. The scandal also led to charges against Stephanie Jensen, former vice president of human resources, and Michael Byrd, the company&#39;s former CFO and COO.
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Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playboy playmate whose bizarre life careened from marrying an octogenarian billionaire to the untimely death of her son, died Thursday after collapsing at a South Florida hotel, one of her lawyers said.
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Al Shugart, 76, who pioneered the multibillion-dollar computer hard drive industry and was one of the more colorful characters of Silicon Valley, died Dec. 12 at California's Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula of complications from heart surgery he had six weeks earlier.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a psychiatrist who revolutionized the way the world looks at terminally ill patients with her book "On Death and Dying" and later as a pioneer for hospice care, has died. She was 78.
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By LUBNA TAKRURI WASHINGTON - A judge had to leave the courtroom with tears running down his face Tuesday after recalling the lost pair of trousers that led to his $54 million lawsuit against a dry cleaner. Administrative law judge Roy L.
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"I had no training or experience ... ."  Anita Roddick, founder of the international Body Shop cosmetics chain, died Monday night after suffering a major brain hemorrhage, her family said. She was 64.Roddick, who died at a hospital in Chichester, had revealed in February that she contracted hepatitis C through a blood transfusion while giving birth to a daughter in 1971. She made the announcement after being named head of the British charity Hepatitis C Trust.The business woman was lauded as the 'Queen of Green' for trailblazing business practices that sought to be environmentally friendly and won her renown in her native England and around the world. Read more
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WASHINGTON -- Last month, venture capitalist Fred Wilson drew a lot of attention on the Internet when he declared a 21st-century kind of bankruptcy. In a posting on his blog about technology, Wilson announced he was giving up on responding to all the e-mail piled up in his inbox.
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A judge in the U.S. capital lost his $54 million lawsuit on Monday against a dry cleaner over a pair of misplaced trousers in a case that became a symbol of the United States' lawsuit-happy legal system.
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Retired teacher wins landmark law lords ruling allowing her to claim compensation
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By Ed Meyer, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Sep. 16--RAVENNA -- A wrongful-death lawsuit was filed Friday over the July drowning of the 6-year-old granddaughter of late Browns owner Al Lerner at her mother's estate in Mantua Township.
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Respected film critic Joel Siegel, who worked on Good Morning America, dies at the age of 63.
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Anita Roddick, founder of the international Body Shop cosmetics chain, died Monday night after suffering a major brain hemorrhage, her family said. She was 64.
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The former chief executive of Freddie Mac, Leland C. Brendsel, may recover more than $50 million in compensation that the company&#39;s regulator froze during an investigation into a $5 billion profit restatement, a federal judge has ruled.
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A former Credit Suisse banker accused of leaking confidential information about several major deals,  was convicted in Federal District Court in Manhattan.