The broadest rally in U.S. stocks since at least 1990 has lifted shares of everything from the smallest companies to the biggest banks, signaling the bull market for America’s largest corporations will last at least until the end of the year, if history is a guide.
Read More »North Carolina first to weigh tougher voting law post-ruling
North Carolina is poised to become the first state to pass a more restrictive voting law after the U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down a core provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Read More »SEC sues China Intelligent Lighting for fraudulent offering
The complaint says China Intelligent Lighting and NIVS IntelliMedia Technology Group made false representations and raised funds in initial public offerings in 2010.
Read More »Detroit immunity ruling opens fight over court shield
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes in Detroit Wednesday blocked lawsuits by public employee unions and pension funds that said the state overreached in seeking court protection from creditors.
Read More »Appeals court affirms $250,000 on consortium claim
A federal appeals court affirmed a $250,000 damage award in a husband’s loss-of-consortium claim — rejecting the plaintiffs’ argument that the amount is too low and the defendant’s argument that it was too high.
Read More »Commentary: Cases against Cohen, SAC won’t be a slam dunk
There are few easy wins for the government in high-profile trials of white-collar defendants.
Read More »SAC Capital indicted in six-year insider trading probe
The insider trading scheme involved more than 20 companies and went back as far as 1999, the U.S. said.
Read More »Second-home tax break depends on Congress
Members of the congressional tax-writing committees are eight times more likely than the average American to own a second home with a mortgage, casting doubt on their eagerness to curb the tax break.
Read More »Thompson Coburn adds Krebs
Bret Krebs recently joined Thompson Coburn’s business litigation and real estate tax assessment groups as an associate.
Read More »Updated: St. Louis County jury awards $5.2 million med-mal verdict
Undiagnosed HIV cost plaintiff his kidney function.
Read More »Commentary: Even crazy bloggers deserve safety from subpoenas
The lonely pamphleteer whom the First Amendment was designed to protect from prior restraint was the precursor of the crazy blogger you love to hate, not of Walter Cronkite.
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