Last April, prominent lawyer and First Amendment champion Edward de Grazia died at age 86. De Grazia spent a legendary legal career defending the artistic worth of literary icons, like Henry Miller and William Burroughs, in their epic battles against censorship.
Investors in Global A&T Electronics, including private equity firms Blackstone Group and Farallon Capital Management, has filed a class suit against the company, seeking the reversal of a $500 million debt swap deal.
Bitcoin is an experimental, decentralized digital currency, which has enabled instant payment anywhere in the world. While still not fully legitimized by many governments, financial analysts continue to debate whether it represents the wave of the future, or a huge dud. The bitcoin essentially uses "peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority," and provides a substitute to paypal or to credit cards. Its encryption code, which substitutes paying by credit, eliminates the hassles of banks serving as the middle men.
Presiding Judge Carola Wittig said that the hedge funds investors of Porsche Automobil Holding SE failed to convince the German court regarding seeking remuneration over the automaker's unannounced takeover of Volkswagen AG.
