NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York judge put two shareholder lawsuits against executives and directors of Goldman Sachs Group Inc on hold until progress is made on 16 other lawsuits related to a controversial debt transaction involving the Wall Street bank.


Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange near the Goldman Sachs stall July 16, 2010. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidReuters - A New York judge put two shareholder lawsuits against executives and directors of Goldman Sachs Group Inc on hold until progress is made on 16 other lawsuits related to a controversial debt transaction involving the Wall Street bank.


NEW YORK (Reuters) - A potential multibillion-dollar judgment against Vivendi SA for misleading shareholders hung in the balance as a Manhattan judge weighed whether a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling limited damages.


AP - A Fulton County judge has ordered that online travel companies that help people book hotel rooms in Atlanta must begin paying the city a bigger share of occupancy taxes.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge approved on Friday a settlement of litigation brought by Intel Corp shareholders and designed to help the world's largest chipmaker avert future antitrust problems.


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AP - A federal judge on Wednesday stopped companies from developing oil and gas wells on billions of dollars in leases off Alaska's northwest coast, saying the federal government failed to follow environmental law before it sold the drilling rights.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday released former media baron Conrad Black from prison on $2 million bond, while she decides whether to throw out his 2007 conviction for defrauding shareholders.


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AP - A federal judge is questioning Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's justification for canceling 77 petroleum drilling leases that the Bush administration sold around national parks in Utah.
AP - A federal judge says the U.S. government failed to follow environmental law before it sold billions of dollars worth of petroleum leases in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska's northwest coast.

FILE - In this June 30, 2006 file photo, former newspaper tycoon Conrad Black enters the federal court in Chicago.  A federal judge set bond at $2 million for Black on Wednesday July 21, 2010 and ruled that he can't leave the continental United States. The decision from U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve came just two years into the 6 1/2-year sentence Black received for defrauding investors out of millions of dollars. Black is jailed in Florida and did not attend the hearing. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)Reuters - A U.S. judge on Wednesday released former media baron Conrad Black from prison on $2 million bond, while she decides whether to throw out his 2007 conviction for defrauding shareholders.


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