'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
English soccer team Liverpool says Tom Werner will replace Martin Broughton as the club's chairman beginning next Wednesday.
The head of British Airways has ripped U.S. air travel security policy as excessive and called on the United Kingdom to reject American calls for increased screening measures.
Liverpool was sold to the owners of the Boston Red Sox on Friday after a bitter trans-Atlantic court fight with the previous American owners over the storied English soccer club.
The ownership battle over Premier League club Liverpool is heading back to the London High Court.
The bitter fight over control of the Liverpool soccer team was dragged through dueling court hearings Thursday on opposite sides of the Atlantic, with a British judge ruling to let the sale proceed to the owners of the Boston Red Sox.
A British judge granted an injunction Thursday against the Liverpool owners that could clear the way for the club's sale to the parent company of the Boston Red Sox, and a Texas judge scheduled a Friday hearing on a request to lift his order blocking the purchase.
Liverpool's chairman has accused the Premier League club's American owners of "trying every trick" to halt the sale to the owners of the Boston Red Sox.
A British judge ruled against Liverpool's American owners Wednesday, clearing the way for the sale of the debt-ridden Premier League club after a bitter boardroom battle.
The battle for control of Liverpool went to court on Tuesday, with a bank trying to force through the sale of the Premier League club to the owners of the Boston Red Sox over the objection of the current American owners.
The future of Liverpool hinges on a ruling by a British judge after a High Court hearing Tuesday that exposed the sharp divisions over the proposed sale of the Premier League club to the parent company of the Boston Red Sox.
The future of Liverpool hinges on a ruling by a British judge after a High Court hearing Tuesday that exposed the sharp divisions over the proposed sale of the Premier League club to the parent company of the Boston Red Sox.
A British judge will rule Wednesday on a key issue in the battle for ownership of Liverpool.
The legal battle to force Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr. to sell Liverpool to the Boston Red Sox parent company reaches London's High Court on Tuesday, while a Singaporean billionaire is ready to announce an improved bid for the soccer team.
Royal Bank of Scotland says it has obtained an interim injunction preventing Liverpool co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr. from firing chairman Martin Broughton and two other board members.
Liverpool's takeover by the owners of the Boston Red Sox will not go ahead if the English club is forced to enter a form of bankruptcy protection and gets penalized in the Premier League standings, people with knowledge of the negotiations said Saturday.
"We all know there's quite a number of elements in the security program which are completely redundant and they should be sorted out," Mr. Broughton said, according to the Financial Times.
Martin Broughton, chairman of British Airways, said Tuesday during the annual UK Airport Operators Association conference in London that his colleagues shouldn't "kowtow to the Americans every time they wanted something done."
