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15 Jun 2:56 am
HORIZON Lines has agreed to pay $20m and freeze freight rates in its Puerto Rico trade lane for two
years to settle a class action lawsuit brought by disgruntled customers. New York-listed Horizon Lines has also agreed to pay its lenders 1.5% higher interest and a one-off sum of $1.8m in consideration for being allowed to exclude this expenditure from
calculations that determine its compliance with covenants
29 Jul, 2008 1:51 pm
An antitrust class-action lawsuit filed in federal court claims Matson Navigation Co. and Horizon Lines Inc. conspired to fix their rate increases through fuel surcharges and at a much higher amount than the actual increase in the cost of the fuel. Also,
the Feds are investigating Crowley and Sea Star in an antitrust probe.
12 Jan, 2007 3:24 am
... occurred. It is too late to take any action to change the outcomes of events that have already occurred. If we draw a vertical line to represent the present in a law firm,
the future would be to the left of that line and the past ... them right." One of the ways Juris, Inc. has been helping Juris clients do that is by moving the "event
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12 Mar, 2007 5:23 am
... to accurately disclose to borrowers their statutory rescission rights. McKenna v. First Horizon Home Loan Corp., 475 F.3d 418, 420 (1st
Cir. 2007 ... a class that included borrowers who had refinanced or paid off their loan with First Horizon, id., at 420-21. The First Circuit
granted a defense request for interlocutory review of " ... ., 621 F.2d 727, 731 (5th Cir. 1980)). The theory behind this line of cases is that "rescission claims, unlike damages
claims, are not subject to any aggregate statutory ...
1 Sep, 2008 1:33 pm
... to year performance. The transition from "emerging" to "emerged" will take a few decades. You need to have the same time horizon. Update:
Mon 1 Sept. The September issue of The American Lawyer (published online today) has a lead story, " ... blind to "disruptive" innovations; and finally and most tellingly of all Being
unable to abandon extremely profitable existing lines of business to take a chance on an unproven innovation whose value will only be known in
some indeterminate future time. It's the ...
7 Jan 1:29 am
... during the Class Period, PFF had been extremely aggressive in generating loans, including being heavily involved in offering Home Equity Lines of Credit ("HELOCs"), which would be enormously problematic if the value of residential real estate did not continue to increase; (c ... the reasons
that that 2009 could be a very active year for securities litigation. The year has barely begun and the horizon is still wide open, but from my
perspective we seemed to have picked up right where we left off. In ...
17 Jul, 2007 6:57 pm
... the development costs are already part of the television or film deals in place and the writer's contract would reflect that cost as it is. Marketing? Here there may be some new
costs but the current contract most likely already addresses this line item as it pertains to DVDs (i.e., the way residuals are calculated would likely account for such costs in
whatever medium). In short, most of the claims seem like stalls to extract as much revenue as possible before cutting in the writers (and as the ...
15 Oct, 2008 4:49 am
A union SALT is a union operative who obtains employment with a targeted employer. They have the same protections under the NLRA as everyone else. Recently, in Horizon Contracting, 353 NLRB No. 16 (Sept. 25, 2008),the NLRB applied the familar...
29 Dec, 2008 9:52 am
... , 333 Bush Associates, a writ of attachment for $48 million on Dec. 19. The move makes the landlord a secured creditor, freezes a portion of Heller's assets for the landlord, and
leaves other unsecured creditors at a disadvantage, essentially waiting in line behind the landlord for dibs on leftover assets. If within 90 days Heller files for bankruptcy --
or if three of its creditors force it into bankruptcy -- then the writ is automatically stayed. That would make the landlord an unsecured ...
26 Jun 7:53 am
On January 28, 2008, the FMLA was amended to allow eligible employees to take up to 26 weeks of FMLA leave in a single 12-month period to care for a covered servicemember suffering from
a serious injury or illness incurred in the line of duty while on active duty. The leave, however, is unpaid. That may change. Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL), with 12 cosponsors,
introduced S. 543, the Veteran and Servicemember Support Act of 2009. The Act directs the VA, in collaboration with the Secretary of ...
30 Apr, 2008 9:10 am
... are some examples from the Natural Framing Flickr pool. __________________________________________________ 4. Horizon Line- Place
the positioning of the horizon line above or below the center of your subjects. ________________________________________________ 5.
Cropping- ... an image. Consider various points of view that amplify depth like a pathway in the woods or lines on the road.
__________________________________________________ 11. Spin- Add some movement to an image by shaking the camera or ...
1 Sep 9:05 pm
Smith v. Horizon Lines, Inc., No. 4573-CC (Del. Ch., August 31, 2009), read letter decision here. ( A
separate complaint involving Horizon in a class action suit pending in federal court in Delaware can be read here.) Holding This letter
decision ... by a heavily redacted account statement that showed simply that someone by the name of Smith owned "some type of Horizon security
at some unknown time." The Court relied on a prior decision in which a complaint under Section 220 was ...
10 Apr 3:14 am
... , in December 2008, investors filed a securities class action lawsuit in the District of Delaware against container shipping company Horizon Lines and certain of its directors and officers. Background regarding the case can be found here. The
securities lawsuit followed in the wake of guilty pleas entered by three Horizon employees to fixing shipping fees in the Puerto Rico shipping
Lane. The securities complaint alleges, among other things, that as ...
31 Aug 9:24 am
Smith v Horizon Lines, Inc., C.A. 4573-CC (August 31, 2009) When the statute governing demands for
inspection rights was changed to permit a demand by a beneficial owner, it also required proof of beneficial ownership. This decision explains what form that proof must take. An account
statement that just has the owner's last name and does not indicate the date is not good enough. You would think that someone named "Smith" would have been told by now to be more
explicit.
1 Jul 8:22 am
City of Roseville Employees' Ret. Sys., v. Horizon Lines Inc., C.A. No. 08-969 (D. Del. June 18,
2009) In this putative class action, the plaintiffs allege that Horizon, a container shipping and logistics company, fraudulently inflated the
value of its securities by entering into illegal price-fixing agreements with its competitors in order to manipulate prices in certain markets. In an unopposed motion for ...
9 Jan, 2007 7:45 am
Case Law Update The First Circuit Federal Court of Appeals released its opinion in Velazquez-Garcia v. Horizon Lines of Puerto Rico. The case addresses the level of proof an employee must have in order to maintain a claim for a ... only prove that their military status
was a "substantial or motivating factor" in the employer's decision to take adverse action. The Bottom Line: Any decision to take adverse action, especially if it involves
termination, should be careful thought out. Too often these ...
15 Dec, 2006 12:23 pm
... been out for quite a while, I only recently downloaded SketchUp. It's a 3-D drawing program now part of Google's stable that is simply phenomenal. I can't draw for beans, and if you
start with me about horizon lines and all that high-tech art talk I leave the room and doodle. But
with SketchUp you can create buildings, you can construct rooms full of furniture, you can represent actual structures and attach them to Google Earth' ...
4 Jan, 2007 1:38 pm
Velazquez-Garcia v. Horizon Lines of PR, No. 06-1082. In a matter of first impression, the court
holds that the burden to show discriminatory treatment under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 ("USERRA"), 38 U.S.C. § 4301 et seq., is on the
defendant (to show a lack of discriminatory motive) if they fire a reservist. Specifically, one the plaintiff shows that his status is "a" motivating factor, the burden shifts to the
employer to ...
4 Jan, 2007 1:07 pm
Reversing a district court's summary judgment, the 1st Circuit today joined what it found all other circuits to have considered the issue and holds that the burden shifting analysis in
USERRA cases is the 2 prong standard used for the NLRA, rather than the 3 prong McDonnell Douglas standard used in Title VII. Velasquez-Garcia v. Horizon Lines of Puerto Rico, Inc. (1st Cir. 1/4/07) [pdf]. Garcia
29 Oct, 2007 1:22 am
... Book's Purported Co-Author May Assert Race Discrimination Claims Her Co-Author, Publisher Kwan v. Schlein Subscription Required U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
Admiralty Alleged Breach of Coast Guard Regulations Does Not Render Ship's Owner Negligent in Crewman's Injury Suit Johnson v. Horizon
Lines LLC
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