Scalia's Death Prompts Dow to Settle Suits for $835 Million

[brooklynite]

Source: Bloomberg

Dow Chemical Co. said it agreed to pay $835 million to settle an antitrust case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death reduced its chances of overturning a jury award.

Dow, the largest U.S. chemical maker by sales, said Friday the accord will resolve its challenges to a $1.06 billion award to purchasers of compounds for urethanes, chemicals used to make foam upholstery for furniture and plastic walls in refrigerators.

The Midland, Michigan-based company disputed a jury’s finding it had conspired with four other chemical makers to fix urethane prices and asked the Supreme Court to take the class-action case on appeal. Scalia, one of the court’s most conservative members, had voted to scale back the reach of such group suits.

“Growing political uncertainties due to recent events with the Supreme Court and increased likelihood for unfavorable outcomes for business involved in class-action suits have changed Dow’s risk assessment of the situation,” the company said in an e-mailed statement.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-26/dow-cites-scalia-s-death-in-settling-urethanes-case-for-835m

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IOW - "It's a pain not having a friendly vote already in our corner"

[onehandle]

1. Corporations, gun nuts, and haters of women have no clue how this changes everything. nt

[Raster]

8. I fervently hope they are about to find out.

1. Strengthen Roe v. Wade and affirm the rights of reproductive freedom;
2. Equal pay for equal work, across the board;
3. One person, one vote. Period;
4. People are persons: living, breathing persons. Corporations are business entities, neither person, nor immortal;
5. The right for two persons to commit and establish a family unit, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, religion, race, creed or color; and
6. Freedom of religion. Freedom FROM religion.

My wish list. Just a start...

[ffr]

21. K&R

[leftynyc]

18. I wish the people threatening not to vote

in November realized that.

[Loudestlib]

29. I hope that people realized that we need to nominate the most electable candidate Bernie Sanders.n/t

[leftynyc]

32. I'll be voting in

The general for whoever has the D by emir name. I would hope everyone who cares about civil rights, women's rights, voting rights, gay rights and the environment would do the same.

[tblue37]

34. I can't help chuckling that your hyperactive autocorrect found "emir" to be a more

likely option than "their" in your sentence! Apparently autocorrect prefers anything a bit unusual.

WHen I tried to post something about Oliver Sacks' death once, autocorrect turned it into "all of her socks."

[leftynyc]

38. I hate autocorrect

It always seems to take a simple typo that anyone could figure out and makes it something crazy.

[tblue37]

39. That it does! nt

[TeddyR]

30. As a Second Amendment supporter

Or apparently a "gun nut," I doubt this changes anything with respect to the right to keep and bear arms. Let's assume that the Supreme Court decides to reverse Heller (most people who actually pay attention to Supreme Court rulings believe this is unlikely), what do you think that changes? Many, if not most, state constitutions protect the right to keep and bear arms, and Congress isn't going to do anything meaningful on firearms in the foreseeable future. Heller could go away right now and I'd still have the right to keep and bear arms here in Virginia.

[okaawhatever]

33. Here's an article with a couple of good updates. Another good source of scotus

info written in a way non-lawyers can understand is scotusblog.com Here is an article on 2A


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/major-second-amendment-case_us_56659b12e4b079b2818f2118

http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/06/new-doubts-on-second-amendment-rights/

Their is a Guns-RKBA Group here at DU. If you go to the bottom of the page and click on Forums/Groups, then subject: Justice & Public Safety you can see the home page for it. Welcome to DU

[Hortensis]

35. How nice - sensible input from a "gun nut." :)

I think so too. What is it, one in every four households in America has a gun or guns?

[sharp_stick]

2. It's nice to know he didn't die in vain n/t

[Raster]

5. DUzy!

[awoke_in_2003]

11. Too soon?

Not at all

[mountain grammy]

16. Perfect!

[NurseJackie]

24. Nicely done!

[malthaussen]

3. All hail Mr Justice Scalia...

... doing good for our country even from beyond the grave.

-- Mal

[ffr]

20. Hear - Hear!!!!

[saturnsring]

4. fking pond scum

[LiberalArkie]

6. Obama should start nominating real Liberal people so it can stay 4-4. It appears

that a lot of big people can't get what they want now.

[mainer]

7. Absolutely. Right-wingers don't realize the disadvantage of a 4/4 court.

They could lose a lot of big cases while they refuse to consider a replacement.

[LiberalArkie]

13. One can only hope. Dow just up and settling for that amount would scare me.

[malthaussen]

22. Probably just chicken feed to them.

But more chicken feed than it would have cost them in other circumstances.

-- Mal

[cynzke]

28. ITS SCARY!

No longer a sure thing. Even with Scalia, the court favored on the side of ACA twice and gay marriage. A tie is not guarantee there will be a tie in every case. IF ANYTHING, there will be more incentive on both sides to reach a consensus on cases and settle them OR merely send them back to the lower court decision.

[Hortensis]

36. What's especially scary about that, tho? The lower decisions,

even when bad, only apply to their districts, and only until they're taken up again.

[floppyboo]

9. I hope all the candidates are asked what they think about this.

It would certainly be a good litmus test. Not only on the SCOTUS issue, but on class action. Especially interested in Hillary's reaction. Trump we can pretty much guess.

[Gothmog]

10. Scalia's absence could affect a number of cases

[Lazy Daisy]

12. Even more reason

Bernie must be the nominee and not Hillary. Hillary will, IF elected, nominate corporate friendly justices and then it's back to the same ol' same ol'. She's already dog whistled to the right she's open to restrictions to Roe v Wade.

But no, President Obama should not wait, he should move ahead and we push like hell for Congress to act.

[Sunlei]

14. I'm sorry to his family & friends for their loss. However,

/does the Munchkins Happy Dance---->>>

[mountain grammy]

15. Best decision Scalia ever made was to die..

[NCjack]

17. Maybe this makes it difficult for the SCOTUS to select the next prez. /nt

[FailureToCommunicate]

25. There you go bringing up history again...

I believe Justice Rehnquist was also pretty important in Bush v Gore, but the memory is getting fuzzy... and Antonin Scalia told us all to “Come on, get over it!”

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/opinion/15tues4.html?_r=0

[ffr]

19. 5 - 4 Progressive. Can there be no better excuse to vote this November?

My fellow democrats, stay energized, get others energized and excited about voting for our progressive/liberal candidates all the way up to and including election day. We can sweep the Rethugs out and silence their voices. Just keep doing what you're doing.

[Marie Marie]

23. "increased likelihood for unfavorable outcomes for business"

will mean favorable outcomes for we the people. 'Bout damn time!

[cutroot]

27. Yes, businesses that steal and fix prices that is.

[napi21]

26. I wonder just how McConnel is going to deal with all the 4-4 decisions or 5-3 where the Pubs lose in

SCOTUS? Many of the cases before the court NOW are going to resort to the lower case decision because of 4-4 decisions. Cases that the Pubs were really excited to win, but now will; not. This is going to go on for more than a year before the new Prez gets to nominate someone, snd then there's the real possibility of the new Prez being a Dem! HAH! I love seeing them crying in there beer!

[dmr]

31. Big smile here

[Rex]

37. Awww...poor Wall Street they lost their biggest tool!

[TeddyR]

40. What made Scalia

Wall Street's "biggest tool"? Lot's of hyperbole and accusations but no facts.

[Rex]

41. Awww did I hurt your feelings?

You worshiped the guy right? No doubt you loved his Citizens United ruling etc.. Now go play with the other kids, I'm sure someone will waste time on you if you try hard.