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The Seventh Circuit applies Required Records Doctrine to foreign bank account records, overriding claim of Fifth Amendment privilege

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 15 2012

In a recent decision, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Required Records Doctrine (RRD or the “doctrine”) compelled production of subpoenaed foreign bank account records, which were required to be maintained under the Bank Secrecy Act

The TIA and REMIC securitizations: one year after Policemen’s Annuity

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 4 2013

In April 2012, U.S. District Court Judge William Pauley concluded that mortgage-backed pass-through certificates issued pursuant to pooling and

RMBS “put-back” litigation: is the assured guaranty decision a game-changer?

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 11 2013

Based on a recent bellwether federal court decision, plaintiffs in mortgage loan put-back litigations may now have a roadmap to establish pool-wide

The impact of Noel Canning on Richard Cordray’s directorship of the CFPB and on CFPB post-appointment activity

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 29 2013

On Friday, January 25, 2013, the D.C. Circuit ruled on the highly anticipated case of Noel Canning v. NLRB, in which the legality of President Barack

District Court dismisses claims against Suntrust in subprime-related securities fraud class action

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 7 2010

On August 19, 2010, District Court Judge Thomas Thrash of the Northern District of Georgia dismissed a putative class action filed against SunTrust and certain of its officers and directors based on the plaintiff's failure to plead multiple required elements of a securities fraud claim

IndyMac jury returns FDIC verdict for negligence and breach of fiduciary duty under California law

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 11 2012

In the first trial of a case brought by the FDIC against former bank officers during this financial crisis, a California jury concluded that three former officers of a division of IndyMac Bank, F.S.B

Delaware court refuses to apply choice of law provision in investment bank's engagement letter

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 29 2010

In Shandler v DLJ Merchant Banking, Inc, a recent Delaware Court of Chancery decision, the court refused to apply the choice of law provision in an investment bank's engagement letter to a claim alleging that the investment bank had aided and abetted a breach of fiduciary

Justice Department reaches settlement agreement with Mastercard and Visa

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 5 2010

Today, the Department of Justice announced that it has filed a civil antitrust lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York challenging certain rules that American Express, MasterCard and Visa have in place to limit merchants from offering consumer discounts, rewards, and merchant cost information

In watershed decision, federal court dismisses shareholder class action against directors and officers of failed bank

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 24 2011

The road to recovery for shareholders of failed banks and other companies that lost value in the wake of the Great Recession just got a lot tougher

New York Comptroller files suit against Bank of America and Merrill Lynch

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 23 2010

Yesterday, the New York State Comptroller, Thomas P. DiNapoli, announced that, in his capacity as trustee of the New York State Common Retirement Fund, he had filed separate lawsuits against Bank of America and Merrill Lynch