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THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002 Section 806 -- Protection for Employees of Publicly Traded Companies Who Provide Evidence of Fraud

"Whistleblower Protection for Employees of Publicly Traded Companies.--No company with a class of securities registered under section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78l), or that is required to file...more

Hamilton (City) v. Metcalfe & Mansfield Capital Corporation, 2012 ONCA 156

Limitation in Misrepresentation Cases: Damage v. Damages

Last week, the Ontario Court of Appeal addressed the important distinction between damage and damages with respect to the limitation issue in misrepresentation cases. In Hamilton (City) v. Metcalfe & Mansfield Capital...more

Mortgage Crisis Commission: Tragedy or Farce?

Here we go again! A commission. The politician's way of seeming to do something, though really doing nothing, all the while defusing criticism and dispersing risk. Three years late and stunted politically at its very...more

Whistleblowers and Bounty Hunters

Section 924(d) of the Dodd-Frank Act (Dodd-Frank) directs the Security and Exchange Commission (Commission) to establish a separate office within the Commission to administer and to enforce the Section 21F provisions of the...more

Fraud Created the Market Theory in Securities Fraud Litigation

A fairly new legal theory called "fraud created the market" has not been accepted by the Third Circuit. This theory attempts to get a presumption that the plaintiff reasonably relied by show that the securities at issue were...more

Federal Judge Rules Against Deutsche Bank and First Franklin Financial Corporation's Wrongful Forclosure on Invalid Assigngment of...

On October 10, 2007, U.S. District Court in Ohio issued an Order requiring Plaintiff-Lenders in a number of pending foreclosure cases to file a copy of the executed Assignment demonstrating Plaintiff was the holder and owner...more

Federal Judge Boyko's Legal Analysis Prohibiting Wrongful Foreclosure Via Invalid Note Assignment

On October 10, 2007, this Court issued an Order requiring Plaintiff-Lenders in a number of pending foreclosure cases to file a copy of the executed Assignment demonstrating Plaintiff was the holder and owner of the Note and...more