NEW YORK, April 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Juan Monteverde, founder and managing partner at Monteverde & Associates PC, a national securities firm rated Top 50 in the 2018 and 2019
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NEW YORK, April 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Juan Monteverde, founder and managing partner at Monteverde & Associates PC, a national securities firm rated
Top 50 in the 2018 and 2019 ISS Securities Class Action Services Report and headquartered at the Empire State Building in New York City, is investigating
Sterling Bancorp ( STL or the Company ) (STL
) relating to its proposed acquisition by Webster Financial Corp. Under the terms of the agreement, STL shareholders are expected to receive 0.463 shares of Webster per share they own.
The investigation focuses on whether Sterling Bancorp and its Board of Directors violated securities laws and/or breached their fiduciary duties to the Company by 1) failing to conduct a fair process, and 2) whether the transaction is properly valued.
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NEW YORK, April 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Juan Monteverde, founder and managing partner at Monteverde & Associates PC, a national securities firm rated
Top 50 in the 2018 and 2019 ISS Securities Class Action Services Report and headquartered at the Empire State Building in New York City, is investigating
Landmark Bancorp, Inc. ( LDKB or the Company ) (LDKB
) relating to its proposed acquisition by Fidelity D & D Bancorp, Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, LDKB shareholders are expected to receive $3.26 in cash and 0.272 shares of Fidelity per share they own.
The investigation focuses on whether Landmark Bancorp, Inc. and its Board of Directors violated securities laws and/or breached their fiduciary duties to the Company by 1) failing to conduct a fair process, 2) whether the transaction is properly valued, and 3) whether all material information has been disclosed.
U.S. Supreme Court spurns limits on life sentences for juveniles
Reuters | Apr 22, 2021 09:43 PM EDT
A general view of the United States Supreme Court in Washington, U.S. (Photo : REUTERS/Will Dunham/File Photo)
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier for states to impose sentences of life in prison without parole on juvenile offenders, ruling against a Mississippi man convicted of killing his grandfather at age 15 in a case testing the Constitution s Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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The justices in a 6-3 ruling rejected arguments by the inmate, Brett Jones, that his sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole violated the Eighth Amendment because the judge in his trial had not made a separate finding that he was permanently incorrigible. The court s six conservative justices were in the majority, with the three liberal members dissenting.
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On April 16, Hong Kong’s High Court sentenced 10 of Hong Kong’s leading pro-democracy activists for their role in leading unauthorized protests in August 2019. Although the protests were peaceful and caused minimal disruption, the court nonetheless handed down a mix of prison and suspended sentences, ranging from 8 to 18 months. In prior unlawful assembly cases, judges had doled out much lighter penalties, often fining those convicted rather than jailing them.
Those convicted represented a virtual who’s who of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, many of whom had never faced criminal charges before. Former legislator Martin Lee, 82, often referred to as Hong Kong’s “father of democracy,” was given a suspended sentence of 11 months. His fellow former Legislative Council colleague and former chair of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party Albert Ho was given a 12-month suspended sentence. Media mogul Jimmy Lai, 72, al