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Registered Rep. April 1, 2005 Richard A. Roth |
Keep It Dark Though one function of the NASD is to police its member firms and protect investors, another of its functions is to provide a fair and just arbitration forum for dispute resolution. The NASD should protect the sanctity of the process by ensuring that all parties are treated equally and fairly.  |
Reason April 2005 Jacob Sullum |
Coffin Break In Oklahoma, where only licensed funeral directors are allowed to sell caskets, an online casket seller is asking the Supreme Court to review such laws and to help break up the casket cartel.  |
Reason April 2005 Julian Sanchez |
SuitTorrent Hollywood vs. downloaders: Newer programs such as BitTorrent have made it practical for Internet users to swap the much larger files required to store movies and TV shows, pushing Hollywood into the same hot seat as the record labels.  |
Reason April 2005 Jacob Sullum |
Fizzling Lawsuits Of 33 government-sponsored gun lawsuits in America filed since 1998, all but three have been dismissed.  |
Information Today April 4, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Post-Tasini Class Action Case Settling for Up to $18 Million The finding by the Supreme Court established that publishers and the information industry had to get approval from authors to electronically publish reports. The amount to be paid to writers under the settlement plan depends on a number of factors.  |
U.S. Banker April 2005 Karen Krebsbach |
Wire Transfer Brouhaha: BofA Suit Sparks Debate In Banking Circles The lawsuit is over responsibility for losses due to a $90,000 electronic funds transfer to scammers in Latvia that accessed the account by stealing the password with key-logging software.  |
InternetNews April 1, 2005 Roy Mark |
Diet Patch Spammers Settle With FTC Court rejects their claim that only affiliate marketers should be held responsible.  |
CFO April 1, 2005 Tim Reason |
The Limits of Mercy The cost of cooperating with the SEC is high. The cost of not cooperating is even higher. Faced with financial penalties, career-ending bans, and possible criminal prosecution, more individuals are choosing to fight the SEC.  |
InternetNews April 1, 2005 Roy Mark |
P2P's Supreme Spectacle Hollywood atmosphere takes over on the day the future of peer-to-peer technology goes before the high court to take on film and music industries.  |
The Motley Fool April 1, 2005 Bill Mann |
AIG: A Curious Incident Class action firms sue companies over nothing. Why haven't they sued AIG over a $60 billion something?  |
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