After the deluge of phone calls, Geragos & Geragos prepared a $100 million class-action lawsuit and filed it before the weekend was over.
It would be fairly easy to dismiss the gleeful boast by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France that American-style capitalism is over, to file it with French critiques of fast food and American pop culture.
Then I look it over and file it.
According to the company's S-1 filing, it has over 1,000 customers, 34 of which are Fortune 100 companies, and there are 168,562 paid users on the service.
Microsoft said that as of Thursday, 118 of the 170 consumer antitrust cases filed against it over the last three years were still pending.
When Mr. Lockhart arrived at Armstrong last summer, he ordered a thorough review of all asbestos claims filed against it over the years, mostly by people who were not Armstrong employees but who in the 1950's worked at a construction site or shipyard where insulation was installed.
Current and former state employees who have been questioned by investigators say the inquiry is also focusing on allegations that the Health Department improperly expedited Mr. Friedman's applications, and that a senior official purged documents from the agency's Parkshore file before turning it over to the attorney general.
He has made a target of News Corporation's Management and Standards Committee, appointed by Rupert Murdoch to track down evidence of wrongdoing from the company's files and turn it over to the police, and to draw up new ethical rules for the company's journalism.
As the parent company of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News slid toward the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing it made over the weekend, one employee did well on the pay front: CEO Brian P. Tierney Brian P. Tierney.
Of the 11,946 lawsuits that it filed over the last four years in California, 73 involved debt in which the statute of limitation had expired, Mr. Garen said.
