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BR&B Derivative Case Against ADM Executives Upheld

3/28/2011 - In an opinion issued on March 28, 2011, Chief Judge Gregory M. Sleet of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware denied the defendants' motion to dismiss BR&B's executive-compensation and corporate governance derivative case against executives of Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (“ADM”), which alleges that ADM’s board of directors disseminated a false or misleading proxy statement on September 25, 2009.

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BR&B Files Lawsuit for GSI Commerce Shareholders

3/29/2011 - On March 29, 2011, Barrack, Rodos & Bacine filed a shareholder action for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority on behalf of the public stockholders of GSI Commerce, Inc. (“GSIC”). The case names as defendants each member of GSIC’s board of directors as well as eBay Inc. (“eBay”) in connection with eBay’s proposed acquisition of GSIC through a merger.

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AIG Update: BR&B Files Lead Plaintiff's Class Motion

4/11/2011 - On behalf of the State of Michigan Retirement Systems (“SMRS”), the lead plaintiff in the American International Group, Inc. (AIG) 2008 Securities Litigation, Barrack, Rodos & Bacine filed a motion for class certification, requesting that the court certify a class consisting of all persons or entities, other than defendants and their affiliates, who purchased American International Group, Inc. common stock, preferred stock and other securities that traded on a U.S.

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PSERS Appointed Lead Plaintiff in Bank of America Litigation

6/20/2011 - The Honorable William H. Pauley III has appointed the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System as lead plaintiff and Barrack, Rodos & Bacine as lead counsel in Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System v. Bank of America Corp., et al., Consolidated Civil Action No.

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BR&B Announces Final Approval of MF Global Settlement

11/18/2011 - Barrack, Rodos & Bacine announces that on November 18, 2011, Judge Victor Marrero of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted final approval of the $90 million settlement of Rubin v. MF Global, Ltd.

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WorldCom Court Approves $38 Million Recovery from Andersen

12/14/2012 - More than seven years after In re WorldCom, Inc. Securities Litigation was settled for over $6.15 billion in 2004 and 2005, an additional $38 million recovery reached between the Lead Plaintiff and WorldCom’s former auditor Arthur Andersen was granted final approval by the Court on December 14, 2012.

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BR&B Files Class Action Lawsuit Against St. Jude Medical, Inc.

12/7/2012 - Barrack, Rodos & Bacine announces that it has filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, Freedman v. St. Jude Medical, Inc., et al., No. 12-03070-RHK-JJG, on behalf of purchasers of common stock of St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE: STJ) during the period from October 17, 2012 through and including November 20, 2012 (the “Class Period”).

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District Court Allows Claims Against Bank of America to Proceed

7/11/2012 - U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley, III, denied Bank of America Corporation’s motion to dismiss the claims in Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System v. Bank of America Corporation that it had violated section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The court held that the consolidated complaint filed by the lead plaintiff, BR&B client Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System, properly alleges that Bank of America purposefully concealed its reliance on Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.

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Court Gives Green Light to Allergan Derivative Case

6/11/2012 - Vice Chancellor Laster of the Delaware Chancery Court gave the green light to a derivative action against the members of Allergan Inc.’s Board of Directors. Barrack, Rodos & Bacine, representing co-lead plaintiff Louisiana Municipal Police Employees’ Retirement System, serves as co-lead counsel in the action. BR&B filed this action on behalf of LAMPERS, an Allergan shareholder, after news reports that Allergan had paid a $600 million fine for off-label marketing and promotion of one of its primary products, BOTOX®Therapeutic.

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BR&B Clients Appointed Lead Plaintiffs in Green Mountain Litigation

4/27/2012 - The Honorable William K. Sessions, III has appointed a global institutional investor group, which includes BR&B clients the Mississippi Public Employees’ Retirement System and the Employees’ Retirement System of the Government of the Virgin Islands, as lead plaintiff and has appointed BR&B as co-lead counsel in Louisiana Municipal Police Employees’ Retirement System v. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc., et al., case no. 2:11-cv-289, pending in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont.

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