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30 Aug 11:29 pm
... Scrub) In a very recent false advertising lawsuit, Medline Industries is all lathered up, alleging that 3M Company is playing dirty in the surgical hand antiseptic marketplace by making false and misleading statements in advertising ... care professionals and the
surgical hand antiseptic marketplace, commencing a comparative advertising campaign of its own. Presumably, 3M will be closely scrubbing each
of the literal and implied claims set forth in this advertising brochure distributed by Medline ...
6 Oct, 2006 6:00 pm
... abrasives like sandpaper and polishing and grinding disks. NicSand Inc. v. 3M Company, 05-3431
(6th Cir. 2006) (filed August 8, 2006) (" ... , Wal-Mart, also had a so-called "wrap around program" in which 3M provided discounts conditioned
upon Wal-Mart purchasing a complete line of coated ... to permit NicSand to serve as an advocate for the downstream distributors economic interests even though it was 3M's direct competitor. Finally, the Sixth Circuit struggled at length with the concept of "antitrust ...
6 May 7:36 pm
... , and training. According to a new class-action lawsuit filed in federal court in California against 3M Company, 3M engaged in a pattern of discrimination against employees older than 46 by giving them negative
performance reviews, inferior ... of younger workers. The suit also claims that workers were asked to sign releases upon departing the company
that contained misrepresentations of their legal rights. The plaintiffs are asking the court to declare the releases unenforceable as a matter of law ...
4 Apr 11:23 am
... is not recovering quickly. The Pioneer Press recently reported that Maplewood, Minnesota-based 3M Company laid off 1,200 workers in the first three months of 2009, ... said that more job cuts could be coming. Several hundred of these layoffs are from
3M locations within Minnesota. Hopefully, the economy will start to recover, layoffs of Minnesotans will slow ... can provide job placement
services and/or retraining. If you're a 3M worker, or any other worker who has been laid off for economic reasons, ...
24 Dec, 2008 7:46 am
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Fitch
29 Sep, 2008 5:53 pm
... reaching a profitable outcome, even if it won in court. What was the plaintiff thinking? Background 3M and SGM compete in the field of
"quartz aggregate products for surface finishes." SGM ... Merits In my opinion, the ACPA claim is an easy defense win because 3M (and the
predecessor company) had legitimate trademark interests in "Diamond Brite" prior to the domain ... s report), did some expensive discovery
(including obtaining and reviewing 3M's portfolio of 13,000 domain name registrations) and tied up ...
15 Sep, 2008 7:30 am
Link: 3M Launches first Pocket Projector | Popular Science. It could be the ultimate trial presentation device. This $359 gadget, from
3M of all companies, will be available at the end of the month, and will project an image on anything available from the palm of your
hand. It remains to be seen whether the actual working models will be bright enough to use in front of a jury box; however, what a great and easy way ...
4 Nov, 2008 6:05 pm
... for the embarrassment and humiliation that Ms. Cantrell suffered, with the jury ordering 100K in compensatory damages and $3M in punitives.
From the original article came this response: Target spokeswoman Bethany Zucco said Friday the company will challenge the ruling. "We are
extremely disappointed by the magnitude of the compensatory and punitive damages awarded by the jury in this case," Zucco said in a statement. " ...
2 Nov, 2008 10:11 pm
... for the embarrassment and humiliation that Ms. Cantrell suffered, with the jury ordering 100K in compensatory damages and $3M in punitives.
From the original article came this response: Target spokeswoman Bethany Zucco said Friday the company will challenge the ruling. "We are
extremely disappointed by the magnitude of the compensatory and punitive damages awarded by the jury in this case," Zucco said in a statement. " ...
1 Apr 8:58 am
... actually break the news to employees, worries over whether remaining employees will be able to handle the workload, and concern over whether the company itself will survive the recession, and you can see why layoffs provoke so much managerial anxiety. Well, they've ... one is proving to be effective:
The kidnapping incidents at Sony France and 3M France both resulted in renewed discussions or negotiations between the union and the
company, which is also what the Caterpillar workers say they want.
12 May 4:30 am
... about plaintiff's contingency fees. Speaking at the SuperConference, Smith said, "We don't favor contingency arrangements if we are the plaintiff because 3M has the cash to pay the firm. It lets the company reap the full reward of the recovery." Smith's logic is that
contingency fees ... "success fees" and "contingency fees"; Feb. 26, 2008: fee arrangement can unravel if the company changes its strategy;
Aug. 28, 2005: rules of thumb for contingency arrangements; and Oct. 29, 2007: ...
19 Aug, 2006 5:24 pm
The widow of James Triplett, a pipefitter who died of lung cancer, sued 3M claiming that her husband's cancer was caused by exposure to
asbestos and that the company's dust mask did not adequately protect him against exposure to asbestos...
9 Mar, 2007 11:48 am
... a paper on XRD: Wiles and Young,"A new computer program for Rietveld analysis of X-ray powder diffraction patterns," J. Appl. Cryst., 1981, 14:149-151. The work of Dahn pertains to
cathodes comprising manganese. From TwinCities.com: 3M Co. sued companies including Sony Corp., Lenovo Group Inc. and Matsushita
Industrial Electric Co., accusing them of infringing patents for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.
8 Feb, 2008 9:44 am
"The owners of Southern Water are £20.3m worse off today after water industry regulator Ofwat confirmed that it has hit the company with its biggest ever fine." Full story The Guardian, 8th February 2008 Source: www.guardian.co.uk
30 Mar, 2008 6:59 pm
3M Co., the tape manufacturer, has agreed to pay nearly $700,000 to settle a case brought by prosecutors in Fresno County, California, charging
that its Scotch and Tartan brand tapes marketed as "for one-inch use" in ... (McClatchy/Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Mar. 27). Reader Bob Dorigo Jones writes that news of the prosecution
"likely created panic within all companies that make, sell or otherwise advertise 2 x 4 boards". Presumably, though, it would not be especially controversial for Fresno County
...
1 Sep 11:14 am
... Yale School of Management. The paper concludes that appointing a separate, non-executive chair allows a CEO to focus on managing the company, mitigates conflicts of interest, provides more risk oversight, and can help restore market trust. Among the other ... are State Street, Becton
Dickinson, Staples, Waters Corp., Medtronic, General Mills, AT&T, and 3M. Walden is asking the companies to provide their views on
the pros and cons of having an independent chair, and to indicate whether their ...
1 Jul 5:49 am
... well as 5 percent interest to compensate them for acts of discrimination dating to 1994. A bench trial in 2005 found that the company
unlawfully made initial assignment and promotion decisions that discriminated against black workers. "Lufkin Industries has been ... a corporate jet and pilot and in 2002 a paycheck
three times that of the president of the United States." The publicly traded company sells and services oil field pumping units, foundry
castings and power transmission products. In April, ...
24 Jul, 2008 5:11 pm
... stealing its trade secrets. In 2006, Hon Hai, which employs approximately 500,000 Chinese workers, sued BYD Company Limited, a Chinese
competitor, for allegedly "systematically looting its trade secrets." According to Hon Hai, in 2006, two of its former ... alleges that over the past 4 to 5 years, 400 of its employees
have moved to BYD, many of whom are suspected of providing the company with Hon Hai's trade secrets and proprietary information. According to
the newspaper ads, the head of BYD is a ...
21 Apr, 2008 11:40 pm
... in 12 states and its CEO have agreed to pay $1.65 Million to settle claims of improper billing to Illinois Medicaid. The company, Heartland
Dental, Inc., also will pay $1.35 Million to settle allegations that newly hired dentists issued prescriptions prior to registration ... entities, will receive $412,500 as her share of
the settlement. Click here to read the PressZoom press release Illinois Dental Management Company to pay $3 Million to Settle Allegations of
False Billing, Dentist Registration.
20 May, 2008 4:23 pm
... will cost it $5.3 million in the Golden State. That's California's share of the company's $58 million payout to 29 states and the District
of Columbia to settle ... articles, using deceptive data while hawking new drugs and allowing company reps to pitch Merck products at
continuing medical education events without first ... Big Pharma's increasingly pricey advertising tactics. Democrats want pharmaceutical companies that market their drugs
directly to consumers (think "Viva Viagra" commercials on TV) ...
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