Ted Cruz on the 10th Amendment, the budget, and his run for Senate.
Grover Norquist discusses the budget and his feud with Senator Coburn.
Raj Rajaratnam’s defense lawyer was careful not to pick a jury of his peers. None of them had anything to do with Wall Street. Some of the jury members never finished high school and came straight out of the egalitarian NYC jury pool. The hope was the defense could bamboozle them into believing that what Raj did was just in the normal course of business. But for sure, they are honest folks, maybe church goers, who clearly understood right from wrong. They listened to those oh so incriminating[...] read »
During the dire days of World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said:
Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.Former Wells Fargo Advisors LLC’s (“WFA”) registered representative Denise Lynn Gizankis took Churchill’s admonition to heart. FINRA Bar On January 25, 2011, Gizankis filed an application for review of a Financial Industry[...] read »
Imagine a standup comic who delivers the punch-lines of his jokes first, a plane with landing gear that deploys just after touchdown, or a stick of dynamite with a unique fuse that ignites only after it explodes. That’s what document production after trial is like--it defeats the purpose.And with that soliloquy, U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in DL v. District of Columbia (May 9, 2011) began the court’s consideration[...] read »
Will over half the voters continue to give the president a thumbs up in the weeks ahead?
Which lenders should you invest in to play fast-growing economies?
The World Intellectual Property Organization’s Arbitration and Mediation Center (“WIPO”) ordered that the domain name <browns.com> be transferred from an Italian cybersquatter to the NFL’s Cleveland Browns (“Browns”). WIPO’s opinion is incredibly detailed, as was the process by which it made its determination in this case. read »
In Egan v. TradingScreen, Inc. (S.D.N.Y. May 4, 2011), U.S. District Court Judge Leonard Sand held that relief under the Securities Whistleblower Incentives and Protection provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act (“Dodd-Frank”) is predicated upon the whistleblower’s personal and direct disclosure of all relevant information directly to the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”). This was an issue of first impression for the federal courts. read »