My latest piece on Legal Newsline: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court closed a loophole when it ruled in Kokesh v. SEC that the Securities and Exchange Commission is limited to a five-year statute of limitations even in disgorgement orders. But FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, may still consider Read more…
The four major professional sports leagues have it. The insurance industry has it. Now the news media industry wants it, too: An exemption from federal antitrust laws so companies that are primarily in the business of gathering news can negotiate better terms with Facebook and Google, which increasingly dominate the Read more…
A report out from U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin and head of the Homeland Security Committee, details just how leaky Washington has gotten in the Trump era. The top-line number: In Trump’s first 126 days in office unnamed officials, former officials and other people seemingly in possession of Read more…
My latest post on Legal Newsline: Jurors applied centuries-old concepts of negligence and liability to find that Syngenta, a Swiss agricultural products giant, should have known China would reject imports of any farm products tainted with its Viptera seed, which is genetically modified to resist bugs and mycotoxins and had Read more…