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The parties have reached a tentative $21 million settlement in a class action filed against the Morrison Knudsen Savings Plan, the Morrison Knudsen Corporation Employee Stock Ownership Plan, other various corporate defendants, and 29 individual defendants on behalf of all current and former participants of the Savings Plan who held shares of Morrison Knudsen stock in their savings plan accounts on or after July 19, 1994, and all individuals who were participants of the Morrison Knudsen Employee Stock Ownership Plan on or after July 19, 1994. The settlement notice does not indicate a claims deadline— persons eligible to take part in the settlement should contact the attorneys for the class for more information.

A class action has been filed against Blockbuster, Inc. (BBI), certain of its officers and directors by stockholders who purchased the company's common stock between September 8, 2004 and August 9, 2005. The action claims that the defendants violated federal securities laws by issuing a series of material misrepresentations to the market over this time period, thereby artificially inflating the price of the company's securities. The stockholders seek to recover compensatory damages for the loss of value of their stock.

A class action has been filed against GlaxoSmithKline PLC (NYSE:GSK), certain of its officers and directors by stockholders who purchased the company's common stock between February 21, 2001 and August 05, 2004. The action claims that the defendants violated federal securities laws by issuing a series of material misrepresentations to the market over this time period, thereby artificially inflating the price of the company's securities. The stockholders seek to recover compensatory damages for the loss of value of their stock.

A class action has been filed against China Aviation (Singapore) Corporation Ltd., (CAOLF.PK) a trader of petroleum products, including jet fuel, gas oil, fuel oil, crude oil, plastics and oil derivatives, and certain of its officers and directors by stockholders who purchased the company's common stock between February 5, 2004 and November 30, 2004. The action claims that the defendants violated federal securities laws by issuing a series of material misrepresentations to the market over this time period, thereby artificially inflating the price of the company's securities. The stockholders seek to recover compensatory damages for the loss of value of their stock.

Kahn Gauthier Swick, LLC ("KGS") announces that it has filed suit against Sourcefire, Inc. ("Sourcefire" or the “Company”) (NasdaqGM:FIRE - News), in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, on behalf of shareholders who purchased shares of the Company in connection with its Initial Public Offering ("IPO") on or about March 9, 2007, or thereafter in the open market. KGS has expanded the lawsuit’s defendants beyond the Company, Board of Directors and CFO, to include the underwriters involved in the Offering (including, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Bros., UBS Securities and Jeffries & Co.), who are each charged with including or allowing the inclusion of materially false and misleading statements in the Registration Statement and Prospectus issued in connection with the IPO, in direct violation of the Securities Act of 1933.

A class action has been filed against chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturer Cambrex Corporation (NYSE: CBM) and certain of its officers and directors by stockholders who purchased the company's common stock between October 21, 1998, and July 25, 2003.

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