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Commentary: Why Did SEC Deny Proxy Access to Shareholders on Election Procedures?

By Joris M. Hogan | December 6, 2007

On Nov. 28, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission adopted an amendment to Rule 14a-8(i)(8) that effectively denies shareholders access to the director-nomination process. This amendment allow

Business Crimes Bulletin

Send an E-Mail, Go to Jail

By Jodi Misher Peikin and John Rizio-Hamilton | February 10, 2006

E-mail evidence is one of the newest and sharpest arrows in the government's quiver. In recent years the government has won several convictions based on little more than damning e-mail evidence. No

National Law Journal

Hospitals Fear Privacy Claims Over Medical Records

By Tresa Baldas | June 1, 2007

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is raising new legal fears for health care providers in light of tougher government enforcement and recent court rulings that could trigg

Employer Liability: The Joints Are Jumpin'

By Lynne C. Hermle | June 10, 2008

Plaintiffs counsel have become increasing adept at crafting new theories of employer liability in wage-and-hour class actions. One current trend is to attack companies for alleged

The Recorder

Judge Sanctions Firm for Filing 'Cookie-Cutter' Patent Infringement Complaints

By Xenia P. Kobylarz | October 18, 2006

Memo to patent troll attorneys: Do your homework.A federal judge in the Western District of Washington has sanctioned an attorney and his law firm for sending dozens of "fill-in-the-blan

The Associated Press

Government Touts Success in Disability Access Cases

By Joshua Freed | October 9, 2006

The vast majority of government agencies and businesses that ran afoul of federal disability laws were brought around by mediation rather than enforcement, according to a report issued Thursday by

The Recorder

San Francisco SEC Chief Goes In-House

By Zusha Elinson | October 22, 2007

Helane Morrison is cashing in her eight years of experience leading the Securities and Exchange Commission's San Francisco office to join investment advisory firm Hall Capital Partners as general c

New York Law Journal

'Ionia' Challenge to Corporate Criminal Liability

By Ronald G. White and Charles L. Shaw | November 21, 2008

Mark Twain once reportedly observed that "everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it."[FOOTNOTE 1] The same could be said of corporate crimin

National Law Journal

Smokers Sue Tobacco Company for Lung Scans

By Peter Geier | November 21, 2006

A group of long-term Marlboro smokers has filed an action in federal court in New York to force Marlboro maker Philip Morris USA Inc. to give them regular low-dose CT scans to catch possible early

New York Law Journal

2nd Circuit Gives Guidance to Litigators on Securities Fraud Claims

By Douglas I. Koff and Jason Jurgens | February 26, 2009

On Jan. 21, 2009, in ECA and Local 134 IBEW Joint Pension Trust of Chicago v. JPMorgan Chase Co./em