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Proposed FAR amendment would require Contractor Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and impose related requirements

  • Venable LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 27 2007

The Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulation Council recently proposed to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”) to address Contractor Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and the display of Federal agency Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) Fraud Hotline Posters (FAR Case 2006-007, 72 Fed. Reg. 7588-90 (February 16, 2007

So you think your company will never be indicted?

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 24 2008

Here are 10 things that could prevent a criminal problem

Shareholders’ allegations satisfied scienter pleading requirements

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 1 2008

In a putative securities fraud class action brought by shareholders against the company and its former CEO and CFO, defendants moved to dismiss on the grounds that, inter alia, plaintiffs failed to adequately plead scienter

Ninth Circuit holds I v. I exclusion does not bar coverage; declines to determine exact meaning of “assistance”

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 11 2008

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, applying California law in an unpublished opinion, has held that a D&O insurer could not deny coverage based on an I v. I exclusion, even though two officers of the company provided information to an underlying plaintiff

Plaintiff sufficiently pleaded securities fraud claims

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 20 2007

The former Vice President of Finance and CFO of a publicly traded company unsuccessfully moved to dismiss claims asserted against him by the Securities and Exchange Commission for, among other things, violations of Rule 10b-5 based upon the inclusion of allegedly false and misleading statements in the company’s Form 10-K and Form 10-Q

Technology company employee pleads guilty to stealing trade secrets to sell to foreign governments

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 17 2008

On February 29, 2008, Allen Cotten pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Sacramento to stealing microwave technologies from his former employer, Genesis Microwave, Inc., and selling or offering them for sale to foreign governments and military contractors

Second Circuit dismisses claims but validates “corporate scienter” theory

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 8 2008

The Second Circuit vacated and remanded a district court’s decision denying defendants’ motion to dismiss a putative securities fraud class action filed against a financial service company, its subsidiary and two executive officers

Third Circuit certifies questions regarding the in pari delicto defense to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 11 2008

The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has certified two questions to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court regarding the scope and availability of the in pari delicto defense to claims against a corporation's auditors for professional negligence, breach of contract and aiding and abetting a breach of fiduciary duty

A corporation’s claim in negligence against its auditors was not precluded in principle by the ex turpi causa non oritur actio maxim

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 28 2007

Moore Stephens (MS) were auditors of the claimant company (S&R) between 1996 and 1998

Plaintiffs fail to allege 10b-5 claims against secondary actors

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 4 2008

A federal district court partially granted defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiffs’ Section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5 claims against a company and its affiliated individuals, arising out of falsified financial statements