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Halliburton and Kellogg, Brown and Root violated their contracts to safely dispose of waste in combat zones, and the toxins their burn pits released allegedly caused serious illnesses in U.S. soldiers. But will extenuating circumstances allow the military contractors to avoid punishment?

Is District Court Judge Mariana Pfaelzer about to throw out the massive Countrywide Financial settlement that has been negotiated between new owner Bank of America and the lender's former shareholders?

It seems that for Pfizer (PFE), the saga of Prempro is just beginning. Barely a month after the world's largest pharmaceutical company lost a case related to Wyeth's Prempro hormone replacement therapy drug and was ordered to pay punitive damages on top of earlier compensatory damages, it lost the...