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Credit Suisse Sec. (USA) LLC v. Billing

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Securities Law
In a suit brought by a group of investors alleging that petitioners-investment banks, acting as underwriting firms, violated antitrust laws when they...

Rosenberg v. Metlife, Inc.

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
Summary judgment for defendants on plaintiff-s libel claim is affirmed over claim that the district court erred in holding that under New York law,...

Downer v. Siegel

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Injury & Tort Law, Securities Law
In arbitration proceedings in which clients alleged fraud in the inducement of certain investments and account agreements and violations of securities...

Disraeli v. Rotunda

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Securities Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action arising from defendants' investigation of, and actions taken in relation to, possible violations by plaintiff of...

Canel v. Topinka

Asset Forfeiture, Government Law, Securities Law
In a claim for dividends from stock which was presumed abandoned under the Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act, dismissal of the claim is...

Roth v. Jennings

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
Dismissal of derivative action brought under section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for disgorgement of short-swing profits from stock...

Harzewski v. Guidant Corp.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
In an ERISA suit by participants and beneficiaries in an employee pension plan alleging that the plan's fiduciaries acted imprudently in failing to...

Saberi v. Commodity Futures Trading Comm'n

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Sanctions, Securities Law
In a matter arising from circumstances where petitioner was found to have intentionally violated a speculative position limit rule of the Chicago...

Taylor v. Westly

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies, Securities Law
In an action brought by plaintiffs, whose securities were lost to escheat, seeking to enjoin the escheating of property without written notice...

Overstock.com, Inc. v. Gradient Analytics, Inc.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law, Injury & Tort Law, Securities Law
In suit alleging that hedge fund principals and a publisher of subscriber-based analytic reports on public companies stepped over the line into...