NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a victory for ratings agencies, a U.S. judge on Tuesday dismissed claims against Moody's Corp <MCO.N> and McGraw-Hill's <MHP.N> Standard & Poor's in litigation over nearly $100 billion of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc <LEHMQ.PK> mortgage-backed securities. Investors had accused the agencies of serving ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge in Manhattan has dismissed three Parmalat SpA <PLT.MI> fraud lawsuits against Bank of America Corp <BAC.N> and the auditing firm Grant Thornton LLP over their roles in the Italian dairy company's 2003 collapse. Friday's ruling by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan is a ...

New York City can continue to ban public school teachers from wearing political campaign buttons in schools, a judge ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said the school policy of banning campaign buttons seemed to reflect a good faith judgment by the Board of ...