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</font></font></td> </tr> </table> <hr> <font FACE='Garmond,Helvetica,Times' size=2 color=#330066> <BR> <B>SETTLEMENT NEWS:</B><BR> <BR> <B>Dot-Com Era IPO Abuse Lawsuit Settled</B><br>Staff Writer<br><br>San Jose Business Journal. October 7, 2009</font><BR> <font face='Garmond,Helvetica,Times' size=1 color='#330066'> _________________________________________________________________________ </font> <BR><BR> <font face='Garmond,Helvetica,Times' size=2 color='#330066'> <!--PASTE ON THE LINE BELOW-->[...] U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin in Manhattan approved the $586 million settlement between investors in more than 300 companies that went public in 1999 and 2000 and the group of underwriters which included Credit Suisse Group, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch & Co., Bank of America Corp., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. 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