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Supreme Court rejects third-party securities liability

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 18 2008

Earlier this week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Stoneridge Investment Partners, LLC v. Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. that stockholders cannot sue third parties that participate in a securities fraud scheme because the stockholders have not directly relied on the advice of the third parties

Court approves prosecution where government hid criminal investigation to get evidence from defendant in civil investigation

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 18 2008

An SEC investigation is supposedly civil in nature, but a new federal appellate court decision says the government can secretly use an SEC investigation as a de facto criminal investigation if the SEC uses no deception and makes no affirmative misrepresentations that an investigation is exclusively civil in nature

The Roth case and export controls: the government sends a message to the academic research industry

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 19 2009

A 72-year-old professor is awaiting sentencing later this month after being convicted of illegal transmitting military technical data without a license from the Department of State to foreign students in the United States

Mark Cuban insider trading case

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 28 2009

On Tuesday Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban had his first hearing in an insider trading case brought by the SEC

The FCPA: two new record settlements serve as a reminder to carefully monitor practices

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 19 2009

The renewed emphasis on enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA or the Act) by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) recently resulted in two record-breaking settlements a warning that should be heeded by all companies doing business abroad

The Supreme Court levels the playing field In Securities Fraud Suits for Defendants

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 6 2007

The Supreme Court’s June 21, 2007 decision in Tellabs, Inc. v. Makor Issues & Rights, Ltd. is critically important to public companies and their directors and officers

Cuban insider trading case dismissed

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 20 2009

On Friday the Federal District Court in Dallas dismissed the SEC’s insider trading case against Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban

This week in securities litigation (October 22, 2010)

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 22 2010

The SEC debated proposed regulations to implement sections of Dodd-Frank as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York discussed what appears to be a renewed war on insider trading

French doctor charged in criminal and civil insider trading cases

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 3 2010

The criminalization of securities enforcement has increased in recent years

A financial fraud action centered on a fictitious customer

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 11 2010

The SEC filed an amended complaint, adding Jon Latorella and James Fields as defendants to an action alleging a financial fraud and stock manipulation involving two companies they control

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