Eliot Spitzer, the self-fashioned “Jimmy Stewart of Albany,” hardly needs a campaign push to coast into the governor’s mansion. With the election just months away, he leads by double digits in the polls and can’t be faulted if he already is mulling fabric samples for his new digs. So a […]
Every once in a while, in the topsy-turvy world that is our federal government, two rights can make a wrong. That’s what happened last Friday when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, perhaps the most influential court on investor issues, struck down the Securities and […]
A fundamental principle of our legal system is that courts must apply uniformly the same standards in deciding cases. Unfortunately, reality often misses the mark, as many stockbrokers who pursue legal remediation to counter a past employer’s false and defamatory Form U-5 filing (the standard securities employment termination form) and […]