The SEC has brought a series of investment fund fraud and Ponzi schemes. Indeed, the Commission has brought so many of these cases in recent years they have become a staple. None of those cases, however, involved securities fraud tied to an investment... Read More

by Steuart H. Thomsen, Phillip E. Stano, Evan J. Taylor In a substantial victory for deferred annuity issuers, Judge Claudia Wilken of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on October 6, 2010, granted Defendant's motion... Read More

In the wake of Morrison v. National Australia Bank Ltd., 130 S. Ct. 2869 (2010) [ an enhanced version of this opinion is available to lexis.com subscribers ], a critical question has been whether a statute has extraterritorial reach. In Morrison the Court... Read More