Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and two other law firms won contracts valued at as much as $8.59 million each to advise the U.S. government on plans to restructure and finance the nation’s auto industry. Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft and Haynes ...

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General Motors Corp. and Chrysler, which have requested as much as $21.6 billion in additional government aid, may need “considerably” more than that, said Steven Rattner, the Treasury’s chief auto adviser. “It could be considerably higher, I won’t deny that,” ...

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A lemon of a pickup truck is going to end up costing General Motors Corp. about $550,000. Last fall, a Wisconsin jury deliberated only an hour before deciding that Todd Van Natta’s 2007 pickup truck was a lemon. Van Natta, ...

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Attorneys for General Motors Corp. secured a defense verdict from a St. Louis jury in a lawsuit following a car crash that severely injured a 15-month-old child. Plaintiffs’ attorneys had sought $1 million from GM during settlement discussions and at ...

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Attorneys for General Motors Corp. secured a defense verdict from a St. Louis jury in a lawsuit following a car crash that severely injured a 15-month-old child. Plaintiffs’ attorneys had sought $1 million from GM during settlement discussions and at ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by General Motors Corp., refusing to stop a lawsuit that accuses the automaker of concealing a parking-brake defect on almost 4 million pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles. The justices, without comment, left intact ...

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General Motors Corp. said it has enough government loans to cover its worst-case forecast for U.S. auto sales and won’t need more if the economy holds up. Pledges from the U.S. Treasury for as much as $13.4 billion to help ...

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