The resulting ruling came after the U.S. Commerce Department concluded last week that Chinese manufacturers were selling solar cells and panels at improperly low prices and proposed raising import tariffs.
The monitor, Kurt Muellenberg, found that Mr. Hanley had bought a union-leased Cadillac Allante sports coupe, worth at least $60,000, at an improperly low price.
Mylan Laboratories Inc., a leading maker of generic drugs, said a federal court in Boston dismissed claims that the company improperly reported prices to the federal government.
He expelled 17 union officials, and he pressed the union's president, Edward T. Hanley, now deceased, to resign after finding that Mr. Hanley had bought a union-leased Cadillac Allante sports coupe, worth at least $60,000, at an improperly low price.
They discovered a number of items that were improperly labeled, though errors went in both directions: A package of mini roast beef sandwiches labeled as weighing 3 ounces, and priced per ounce, actually varied in weight from 4.5 to 5.1 ounces.
Authorities are examining whether the large positions improperly influenced market prices.
Those that refused to publish did so because they thought the information was not worth the price, improperly sourced or would be too controversial politically.
The charges are unfair, but because Vietnam and China are not market economies, the Commerce Department has much license to estimate their shrimp exporters' costs and claim that their prices are improperly set below that level.
In the recent Dell decision, Judge Travis Laster (who is the same judge in the ExamWorks case) made it clear that if the sale process was run improperly, then the merger price should not be used to make an appraisal rights award.
The N.A.S.D. said that before the Nasdaq market openings on March 17 and Oct. 20, 1995, traders of over-the-counter stocks at Morgan Stanley "improperly and fraudulently" raised the prices they quoted for the nine stocks.
