Tag: Legal

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Battling Bills

A memo from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to its network of outside legal counsel shows the retailer is taking steps to slow its legal costs.

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Merrill Mistake

We spoke with some area brokers to get their reaction to a federal court?s ruling that stopped all use of fee-based brokerage accounts by Oct. 1. The ruling didn?t seem to ruffle any feathers.

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Subs File More Legacy Liens

Several subcontractors who performed work on the Legacy Building in downtown Fayetteville filed liens or foreclosures totaling around $1.1 million in advance of deadlines to preserve their claims.

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Former Wal-Mart Exec Sentence Reexamined

The Eighth Circuit?s U.S. Court of Appeals in St. Louis ruled Aug. 28 that Tom Coughlin, a former executive at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville, should be re-sentenced in the fraud case against him because the court?s sentence was too lenient.

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Tom Terminella?s White Knight

We delve deeper into the foreclosure-countersuit between Metropolitan National Bank of Little Rock and Fayetteville developer Tom Terminella in this issue, but just didn?t have room for everything.

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UA, Guitar Maker Set for Court

The great guitar debate we told you about in our June 4 Whispers between the University of Arkansas and Dean Guitars over the use of the word “Razorback” has been set for a non-jury trial in the U.S. Western District of Arkansas on Jan. 28.