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The SEC's Renewed Focus on Regulation FD
In the past 18 months, the SEC has brought two Regulation Fair Disclosure ("Regulation FD") enforcement actions. While this number may not appear particularly significant, past history (the SEC brought seven enforcement actions from 2002 to 2005) and recent SEC guidance indicates that the SEC has renewed its emphasis on enforcing Regulation FD.
Business Crimes Hotline
Recent rulings of interest to you and your practice.
Class Action Lessons from Wal-Mart v. Dukes
The Supreme Court's decision in <i>Wal-Mart v. Dukes</i> draws bright lines that will redound to businesses' benefit and limit the size and scope of class actions in the future.
Nigeria: An FCPA Minefield for Corporations
Corruption remains a fact of life in Nigeria ' a fact that has not been lost on the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
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Developments in Indian Anti-Corruption Legislation
While U.S. authorities have stepped up FCPA enforcement to an unprecedented level, India, the world's largest democracy and second largest country by population, finds itself among the forefront of countries working to rid themselves of corrupt transactions.
The SEC Whistleblower Incentives Program
This article examines how the SEC plans to use the powerful new incentives to draw out would-be whistleblowers, and how it plans to sort through and make use of whistleblower complaints.
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Music Published on Internet Ruled 'U.S. Work'
A Finnish record company's claim that pop music producer Timbaland and pop star Nelly Furtado plagiarized its music was recently thrown out of court by a Miami federal magistrate.
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Protecting IP Rights in a New gTLD World
The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the international body governing Internet naming and addressing practices, approved in June a plan that allows for a virtually unlimited number of new generic top-level domains (new gTLDs), including new non-English, character-set international domain names. Companies concerned with protecting intellectual property rights have two ways to address the issue — to the right of the dot and to the left of the dot.
IP News
Highlights of the latest intellectual property news from around the country.
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