The Delaware Chancery Court denied Tate &...

The Delaware Chancery Court denied Tate & Lyle PLC’s motions to seek preliminary injunctions against Staley Continental Inc.’s “poison pill” rights plan and super majority voting provisions, according to an SEC filing . . . Maxicare Health Plans has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Maxicare Georgia unit to a unit of Kaiser Permanente . . . Schering-Plough Corp. has terminated an agreement with Cooper Cos. of Palo Alto to purchase Cooper’s worldwide contact lens business after the Federal Trade Commission said it would seek an injunction to block the transaction . . . Franklin D. Konigsberg of the Westside CPA firm Parks, Palmer, Turner & Yemenidjian, owns 5.1% of Josephson International Inc., according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission . . . Sierra Spring Water Co., Sacramento, announced that its stockholders approved and adopted a merger agreement with Anjou International Co. whereby Sierra Spring Water would merge with a wholly owned subsidiary of Anjou International Co.