Since Sarbanes-Oxley was passed the Commission has invoked Section 304 to seek the repayment – or clawback – of certain executive compensation. Specifically, in SEC v. Jenkins, Case No. CV-09-01510 (D. Ariz. Filed July 22, 2009) the Commission for the first time sought the repayment of certain disc ...

In Iowa Right to Life, Inc., v. Miller, filed yesterday, Jim Bopp challenges a host of Citizens United-related legislation in Iowa. On the list: the state requirement that corporations (among others) register and report as PACs if they spend past...

The Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) will hold its first-ever online forum at 8 p.m. EDT/5 p.m. PDT on September 14, 2010. The "listening post" session is the first of two major national public forums focused on soliciting input about...

Patients who have undergone hip replacement surgery using DePuy hip implants should know that DePuy Orthopaedics has recalled their ASR hip implants. According to research by a British agency, 1 out of every 8 people who had ASR implants needed to have their surgery corrected within 5 years. This ...

I've written in the past about the importance of holding foreign manufacturers accountable when their products injure and kill. Mark Bello, pointed out the amount of worthless crap we are seeing dumped into this country by foreign markets. A great example of the problem was covered recently by ...

Most law firms state their commitment to diversity and inclusivity, prominently featuring on their diversity pages the pathetically few women and minorities in positions of genuine economic power in the firm.  Are they walking the talk?  Let me count the ways. O'Melveny & Myers ~ W ...

HP has sued its former CEO to prevent him from working for a competitor, Oracle. HP filed its suit in California and California does not enforce non-compete agreements because that state views them as harmful to society. As such, HP is going to have a hard time stopping Mr. Hurd from working for O ...

This year's Utah State Fair, coming up on September 9-19, is the 154th state fair in Utah. In fact, the first fair in 1856 was held just 9 years after the first pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. As early as 1876, in the Compiled Laws of Utah, the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Societ ...

Our Illinois class action attorneys recently noted a Seventh Circuit decision ending a class-action case in the difficult realm of securities fraud. In Re Guidant Corporation, No. 08-2429 (7th Cir. Oct. 21, 2009), is a securities class action stemming from allegedly misleading statements Guidant C ...

by Kenneth Anderson No doubt many readers have seen the press articles announcing George Soros' gift of $100 million to Human Rights Watch.  Most interesting to me was that the gift is aimed, in part, at diversifying the organization, staff, and board away from its current US-centric arrangement.  A ...