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They have since made a major case against the company based on the tip; other accusations of improper trading practices by Putnam have also been made recently by the commission.

This month, it won a major case against Ohio Edison, a unit of FirstEnergy, with a federal judge ruling that the plant upgraded seven coal-fired power plants illegally because it did not install pollution equipment.

The major action, however, has been at the FTC, which last year launched a major case against Intel and now seems on the verge of challenging this Google acquisition.

Market regulator NASD is pursuing 12 investigations into whether brokerages promoted certain mutual funds in exchange for trading business, and expects to bring a major case soon against a brokerage, an NASD official said Thursday.

In October, 2007, a major case brought by the government against the Holy Land Foundation, which before it was designated, in 2001, was the largest Islamic charity in the U.S., concluded without a single conviction.

In 1998, he argued a major case in the California Supreme Court involving the right against self-incrimination in People v. Peevy, 17 Cal.

Despite widespread allegations that fraudulent and predatory behavior on the part of banks and peddlers of predatory mortgages drove that crisis, the Justice Department secured a conviction in only one major case against an investment banker.

The firm has purchased 200 patents and has embarked on some 15 lawsuits, including one major case against Comcast, Time-Warner and other major cable- and broadcast-TV companies in federal court in Delaware.

The Times also tagged cases involving public-company defendants and banks as a measure of major cases against prominent defendants.

The United States attorney's office in Manhattan has won a number of major cases against big investors, corporate executives and others.

MIAMI — Lawton Chiles spent his last years as governor battling Big Tobacco, pushing one of the first major cases against cigarette companies, which resulted in an endowment of almost $2 billion and a "truth campaign" against smoking that became a national model.