A federal appeals court created a circuit split last week when it ruled the five administrative law judges hired by the Securities and Exchange Commission are appointed in violation of…
Federal prosecutors have charged three Chinese citizens with insider trading and computer intrusion for allegedly hacking into the computers of two prominent law firms to obtain information about pending deals.
Taking a cue from their Republican counterparts, some Democratic state attorneys general are prepared to file lawsuits that challenge Donald Trump’s administration’s actions.
An argument advanced by Republicans—that states must…
The city of Portland, Oregon, is addressing income inequality by taxing publicly traded companies in the city that pay their chief executives at least 100 times more than the median…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a secondhand tippee who traded on confidential inside corporate information first passed between brothers can be convicted of insider trading even though…
Throughout the course of his presidential campaign, there was a veritable laundry list of proverbial bogeymen that Donald Trump promised to vanquish if and when he got into the Oval…
A federal appeals court has overturned an arbitration decision because the person who headed the arbitration panel had falsely claimed to be a California lawyer.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday considered whether insider trading includes tips on material, nonpublic information passed between relatives and friends, without any financial benefit to the insider providing the…
After a federal jury Wednesday found that the city of Miami committed fraud when it sold more than $150 million in municipal debt, it’s likely that the Securities and Exchange…
A shareholder lawsuit settled 18 days after filing benefited the lawyers who would receive $370,000, but the disclosures required by the deal in advance of a merger were of little…
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