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5 Nov 2010, 1:04 pm by Ted Allen
Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable before addressing proxy access.Cox also expects that the SEC will be more cautious about bringing controversial enforcement cases, such as the commission's lawsuit against Goldman Sachs over mortgage-backed securities, to avoid the prospect of having to testify before a Republican-led House subcommittee.It also appears unlikely that Congress will pass legislation to expand or restrict the rights of investors to bring securities… [read post]
5 Jun 2024, 1:09 pm by Kate Reeves
  SLAPP suits represent the consolidated effort by corrupt actors to waste activists’ financial resources and time. [read post]
19 Mar 2009, 2:43 am
Second, she was arrested on February 26, 2009 and charged with obstructing a proceeding before an agency of the United States. [read post]
23 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm by John Cannan
“Middle class” rights holders often find an infringement lawsuit is not worth that cost. [read post]
12 May 2017, 12:45 pm
The article represents another iteration in a long ideological battle, the contours of which assumed their contemporary substantive forms in the 1970s,[1] but which evidences contemporary battles over the distribution of regulatory power among state and non-state actors in the early 21st century.[2] That battle revolves around two key questions. [read post]
12 May 2018, 4:56 pm by Schachtman
If a large class action showed that the expected value of a minority’s proportion was 15%, and the observed proportion was 14.8%, p < 0.05, most innumerate judges and jurors would sense that this disparity was unimportant and that no employer would fine tune its discriminatory activities so closely as to achieve such a meaningless difference. [read post]
22 Sep 2023, 6:54 am by Zak Gowen
An Interchange Class-Action Settlement Inches Forward With a Recent Court ActionDigital Transactions News – September 15, 2023 The federal court overseeing a $5.54-billion settlement between millions of card-accepting merchants, on one hand, and Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc., on the other, over interchange costs recently took several steps that ultimately could get payments out to merchants. [read post]
15 Jun 2017, 5:14 am by The Law Offices of John Day, P.C.
“One class of special relationship that creates an affirmative duty to act is that in which an individual or entity voluntarily takes custody of another under circumstances that deprive the other of his or her normal opportunities for protection. [read post]
12 Sep 2014, 8:16 am
” Defacing, damaging, polluting or otherwise physically mistreating in a way that the actor knows will outrage the sensibilities of persons likely to observe or discover the action. [read post]
18 Mar 2012, 11:46 am by Vladimir Gagic
It has long proved extremely difficult within the US left, for example, to forge the collective discipline required for political action to achieve social justice without offending the desire of political actors for individual freedom and for full recognition and expression of particular identities. [read post]
9 Jul 2024, 5:00 am by Josh Blackman
Because the government is well within its powers to prohibit actions. [read post]
25 Mar 2023, 12:54 am by Florian Mueller
There are two litigations pending in the U.S.: the FTC's in-house adjudicative proceeding and a class-action-style lawsuit in San Francisco.Technically, Sony's PlayStation foreclosure theory has been dismissed seven times by now. [read post]
24 Nov 2015, 6:08 am by Dennis Crouch
When Congress considered the EEA in 1996, there was some discussion of adding a civil right of action, but this was deemed impractical in view of the need for swift legislative action. [read post]
26 Oct 2017, 7:38 am by Andrew Koppelman
  His work, which won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics, argued that, if state actors are as selfish as private actors normally are, they are likely to be captured by unsavory special interests. [read post]
6 Mar 2010, 5:00 pm by Lawrence Solum
But Congress also has the power to enforce the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause-- a guarantee of equal citizenship that, like the Thirteenth Amendment, contains no state action requirement. [read post]
5 Mar 2008, 4:54 pm
(3) State Preemption: preempts state laws but leaves contract, tort, TtC, fraud, and computer crime actions in tact [read post]