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18 Jul, 2007 11:30 am
... . Questions Presented: (1) How can you tell when a gay co-worker is cruising you at the urinals? (2) Is he checking you out -- or does he just have a lazy eye? For more details,
check out Keeping Up With Jonas. Gay Guy Harasses Straight Co-Worker at Urinal? [Keeping Up With Jonas] Bernier v. Morningstar, Inc. [Keeping Up With Jonas (PDF)]
5 Sep, 2007 1:17 pm
Today (bold added by me): USNAannounced Wednesday that PricewaterhouseCoopers has been hired as the company's new independent auditor. We are encouraged by this news as we view PwC's
new role as a sign of Usana's financial legitimacy; however, we are still wary of Usana's management team. PwC will immediately begin reviewing Usana's second-quarter results, which
were filed but never reviewed by an independent auditor, thereby making the company delinquent in its regulatory filings. Usana did ...
16 Jan 8:00 am
... "another Bernie Madoff out there." Possible evidence? Are there other firms out there with unblemished quarterly records? Yes. According to research done for Politico by
Morningstar Inc., there are 1,684 hedge funds that have disclosed their results for the past 20 consecutive quarters. Of those, Morningstar found that 34 have never
reported a down quarter in the past five years. And of those 34, at least seven funds, or their parent ...
12 Apr, 2008 8:45 am
... in subprime securities. SIVs use short-term borrowing to buy higher-yielding long-term assets. For example, Legg Mason Inc. has recently entered into a capital support
agreement agreeing to provide up to $400 million to bail out an ... billion in money funds. "This is as bad of a situation of all the ones I've looked at," says Andrew Richards, an
analyst with Morningstar Inc. in Chicago. "The good news is that [Legg Mason is] detoxifying their funds." Debt issued by SIVs account for about 2 percent ...
27 Apr 6:45 am
OppenheimerFunds, Inc. is facing a number of class actions, investor claims and investigations by five states into losses associated with its bond funds. According to
Morningstar, Inc. of Chicago, the funds lost 29% last year compared with a 7.9% average decline for bond mutual funds overall. According to a recent article in Investment
News by David Hoffman, the reason for the bad performance was big bets that ...
23 Jul, 2007 10:17 am
In opinions issued on July 17 and 18, federal appeals courts in Chicago and Philadelphia issued decisions backing up gay-friendly employer policies. Bernier v. Morningstar,
Inc., 2007 WL 2033747 (7th Cir., July 17, 2007); Hutchinson v. Scull, 2007 WL 2045690 (3rd Cir., July 18, 2007). In both cases, the courts upheld decisions by district judges to
reject discrimination claims by employees who had been ...
29 Jul, 2007 8:14 pm
... that Sarbanes-Oxley's goals are pure. But the jury is still out on whether its costs have justified its benefits. "It's sort of ironic that it's the accounting firms -- they dropped
the ball -- and they end up being the primary beneficiaries of this," [Morningstar Inc. equity analyst Brett] Horn said. "All of this happened in the wake of some bad
things. The real question is, 'Does Sarbanes really materially help to stop ...
30 Aug, 2008 2:03 am
I hate mutual funds. Check this out: Out of almost 2,100 diversified retail U.S. stock mutual funds that are open to new investors, just 17 have positive returns for both the past 12
months and year-to-date, according to investment researcher Morningstar Inc. Less than 1% of mutual funds are in the black for the last 12 months. [...]
15 Sep, 2008 9:23 pm
... votes are confidential. It should have appealed to try to end the European Commission's case for once and for all, said Toan Tran, an analyst at Morningstar Inc. in
Chicago." The report raises a number of questions. First, of course concerns the accuracy of assertion that it was a bare majority that voted in favor of finding against Microsoft. We
can never know for sure because, as the Bloomberg report also states, the deliberations ...
26 Oct 1:37 pm
On Wednesday, October 21, Arnstein & Lehr hosted a special screening of the feature documentary The People v. Leo Frank in the auditorium of Morningstar, Inc. The film
recounts the 1913 murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan at an Atlanta pencil factory and the trial and lynching of her accused killer Leo Frank. The story provides
17 Nov 5:33 pm
... for Lawyers … http://www.legalmarketingblog.com/ From the site: Tom Kane, a former practicing attorney, is the principal of Kane Consulting, Inc., a legal marketing
consulting firm. Our take: Like Mr. Bodine above, Tom Kane is someone we ... Marketing for Solo Attorneys and Lawyers at Small Firms Ranking Page: http://www.lawyerbizcoach.com/ From
the site: As co-founder of Morningstar Multimedia, Krista Baker has been creating and implementing marketing plans for professional services firms such as ...
18 Sep, 2007 2:22 am
... . 10. Usana's long-time auditors, Grant Thornton, resigned after a disagreement about the scope of review procedures on quarterly financial statements. 11. Usana's 2nd quarter SEC
filings are delinquent (i.e. They filed financial statement that were unreviewed.) 12. Morningstar reported: 'We are still wary of Usana's management team.' 13. Usana accuses
Barry Minkow of lying to profit from a drop in Usana's stock price, but the truth is that he issued a fair report with evidence to back up the ...
23 Jun, 2008 4:44 pm
... NFP civil opinions today (2): In Alfred Dartis v. Delco Remy America, Inc. (NFP), a 9-page opinion, Judge Bradford writes: Appellant-Respondent Alfred ... granting a petition
for judicial review brought by Appellee-Petitioner Delco Remy America, Inc. ("DRA") and reversing the finding of the Anderson Human Relations Commission ("AHRC") that DRA's ...
in following such a method. Affirmed." NFP criminal opinions today (7): Lance Morningstar v. State of Indiana (NFP) Carlos Rivera-Hood v. State of Indiana ( ...
15 Dec, 2008 9:00 pm
One of my favorite things about the end of the year, is the lists of Top 10 [insert inane subject here] of 2008. I just can't stop myself from stopping everything I'm doing to scan
these lists to see what folks though was the best (or worst) of the year. And this year, I don't just have to view these lists on VH1. I've scanned the web, blogs, and microblogs for
any listing of Top 10's (trying to keep it as inclusive in the law and tech topics as I could) and compiled the following list. Of ...
3 Nov 3:03 am
... imposing a fiduciary duty on investment advisers with respect to the receipt of compensation for services. In Gartenberg v. Merrill Lynch Asset Management, Inc. (CA-2 1982),
the Second Circuit ruled that, in order to violate Section 36(b), the adviser must charge a fee that ... you have to do is push a button and you find out exactly what the management
fees are. You look it up on Morningstar and it is right there and you can make whatever determination you'd like, including to take your money out ...
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