Joseph Alioto, the attorney representing the independent dealers, said outside court that the members of Equiva increased prices they charged independent dealers between 25 cents and 40 cents per gallon in 1998.
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It has recently brought enforcement cases against the Parnassus fund, a mutual fund, and the Rockies fund, a closed-end fund, charging independent directors with failing to adequately police how the fund's managers valued certain stocks.
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The parties are also agreed on the abolition of the tax and its replacement with a municipal charge independent of the value of the property; this reform is planned to be carried out in 2008.
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And in this case there was an alternative comparison, rejected by the panel on the basis of airy speculation comparison of the fees that Harris charges independent funds with the much higher fees that it charges the funds it controls.
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The editor and publisher of the new Brill's Content magazine went on Russert's " Meet the Press " to discuss his explosive story charging independent counsel Kenneth Starr and the press corps with grievous misdeeds in the handling of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
