Other state and local governments appear to be delaying disclosure, waiting to see if the federal government will save the day.

Often, he sold them back to the company, a mechanism that delayed disclosure.

Representatives of private environmental groups said the latest revelation fit a distressing pattern of delaying disclosure of problems, then downplaying findings.

Although the majority of children were told within a week to several months after results disclosure,[120,125,126] some parents chose to delay disclosure.

State and Federal court decisions have generally allowed companies to delay disclosure of important developments while a merger is pending.

His best guess, he said, was that perhaps the unsettled nature of a potential merger "creates a business reason to delay disclosure on the C.E.O. issue."

To protect patient confidentiality, Abiomed officials said they would delay disclosure for up to 30 days after the first human implantation of the AbioCor.

Several senior Pentagon officials complained that General Casey's staff in Iraq delayed public disclosure of the findings for months.

The indictments say that he also asked the bank's compliance officials to postpone their audit to delay disclosure of the loss, but they refused to do so.

The five-member court delivered the ruling to the two governments this morning but officials agreed to delay public disclosure of the decision until Monday.