There have been a spate of insider -
trading cases against individuals who work at law firms and gain access to information about pending corporate mergers and transactions.
The brash billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner was vindicated in July when a federal judge dismissed the SEC's insider -
trading case against him.
WASHINGTON — Canada has filed a sweeping
trade case against the United States at the World Trade Organization, lobbing a diplomatic grenade at the Trump administration's «America First» approach amid an increasingly embattled trade relationship between the longstanding North American allies.
Mr. Lighthizer brought such
trade cases against foreign actors for decades as a lawyer for the steel industry, and he has criticized the World Trade Organization for interfering in what he sees as the United States» efforts to enforce its own laws.
India has lodged similar
trade case against U.S.
Not exact matches
Alphabet's (goog) Waymo self - driving car unit asked a U.S. judge on Monday to postpone an upcoming
trade secrets trial
against Uber Technologies (uber), so Waymo could investigate whether Uber withheld important evidence in the
case.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider this week a closely watched insider
trading case that could limit the ability of prosecutors to pursue such charges
against hedge fund managers and other traders.
That figure includes 487 individual
cases of alleged insider
trading, 365 for stock manipulation, 343 for violations of laws and rules related to financial disclosure, 196 for contempt of the regulatory agency, and another 94 for fraud
against customers.
Now, Alphabet, which filed a lawsuit
against self - driving truck startup Otto and Uber for patent infringement and stealing
trade secrets back in February, says the contents of the letter might contain information that could be relevant to the
case.
On April 11, 2018, Patrick K. McDonnell — a defendant in the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission's
case against CabbageTech, Corp (DBA Coin Drop Markets)-- submitted a letter to Judge Roanne L. Mann of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Such a violation, if eventually confirmed by the Federal
Trade Commission, could lead to many millions of dollars in fines
against Facebook, said David Vladeck, who as the director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection oversaw the investigation of alleged privacy violations by Facebook and the subsequent consent decree resolving the
case in 2011.
Two
trade groups and a dozen tech companies sent a letter to President Trump urging continuation of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission anti-trust case against Qual
trade groups and a dozen tech companies sent a letter to President Trump urging continuation of the U.S. Federal
Trade Commission anti-trust case against Qual
Trade Commission anti-trust
case against Qualcomm.
Rep. Kevin Brady (R - TX), chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees
trade policy, met Trump at the White House twice last week to make the
case against the tariffs and suggest alternative proposals for how to revive American steel.
A Northern California federal judge has denied Qualcomm's motion to dismiss the U.S. Federal
Trade Commission's antitrust lawsuit
against the San Diego wireless technology company, which means the
case will go forward.
When the International
Trade Court ruled in favor of plaintiffs Suniva and SolarWorld in their
case against cheap Chinese solar module and cell imports, reactions were polarized: the U.S. solar industry was outraged — as it had been for most of the duration of the court investigation — and investors, apparently, were extremely upbeat for the future of this same outraged industry, sending solar stocks sky - high.
In November, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) won a court
case against popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase that required the exchange to hand over information on 14,355 users who'd
traded in excess of $ 20,000 worth of bitcoin between 2013 and 2015.
We know from the CFTC
case against Sarao that he switched FCM's often: «Defendants
traded the E-mini S&P at four futures commission merchants (FCMs) during the Relevant Period: FCM A (April 2010 to October 2011), FCM B (November 2011 to January 2012), FCM C (July 2012 to August 2012), and FCM D (August 2012 to June 2014).
Cases against regulators often are filed by
trade associations to protect individual companies from any potential blowback from the government or the public.
In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics
trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [
case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast
against gold in the short article.
A look at economic developments and stock market activity around the world Wednesday: ------ WASHINGTON — Financial firms that play a dominant role in the energy futures market brought their
case against broad limits on speculative
trading to...
As member countries proceed to the ratification stage, critics and proponents will be making their
case for or
against the regional
trade agreement.
That same day, Canada also launched a
case against the US at the World
Trade Organization over American use of border taxes to protect its domestic industries.
In this
case, Canada and the European Union are both threatening to retaliate
against the US after President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he planned to impose big tariffs on imported steel and aluminum by using an obscure
trade law.
On the surface, United States
Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer appears to have made an ironclad
case against China in the so - called Section 301 report issued on March 22.
The only hedge to cryptoassets now is fiat — which means
trading alts
against fiat, like you do at LBX, will become a more popular option in
case this trend continues.
The author makes the
case for and
against «free
trade.»
This
case study has viewed SEA of India in terms both of what it does and how it does it, benchmarking it
against a model of best practice published by the UK's
Trade Association Forum and also drawing on a previous ITC study visit with East African sunflower associations
«Now this action further erodes historical support for rules - based
trade policies, even though China will likely bring a
case against the tariffs within the WTO dispute settlement process.
In that
case Gaidry, a manufacturer of a sauce labelled «Tabasco Pepper Sauce,» brought suit
against McIlhenny Company for damages for alleged wrongful conduct in interfering with the plaintiff's business by falsely and in bad faith representing to dealers throughout the country that it had an exclusive
trade - mark in the name «Tabasco,» and threatening injunction and other legal proceedings
against those who handled any sauce called «Tabasco» not made by the said McIlhenny Company.
In a
case similar to the Gaidry
case, New Iberia Extract Co. v. McIlhenny Sons, the New Iberia Company had recently recovered damages
against McIlhenny Sons in the Supreme Court of Louisiana, on a similar cause of action, New Iberia Extract Co. v. E. McIlhenny, 182 La. 150 [8 T. M. Rep. 189], the decision having been based largely on the judgment of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, cancelling the Mcllhenny Company registration of «Tabasco» as its
trade - mark.
Much depends on the outcome of the CAS
case against Manchester City — if Man C win then the laws relating to
trading in players have more or less gone.
That has only happened once since the first version of Infant Formula and Follow - on Formula Regulations were introduced in 1995 (Birmingham
Trading Standards won a
case against illegal advertising of SMA infant formula in 2003).
Britain's efforts to open up new markets for
trade in South America were rocked by the Julian Assange
case yesterday, after a meeting of regional foreign ministers united
against «threats» from the UK.
The Leaderships of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the
Trade Union Congress are demanding for the resignation of the Minister of State, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, for alleged involved in the handling of the
case of corruption
against the Chief Medical Director of the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, Dr. Angela Uwakwem.
But I'd say the
case against Silver (which prosecutors will retry) and the overturned insider -
trading convictions are pretty big cherries.
In New York, it is not
against the law for legislators to take outside income — and it was a major factor in the
case of Mr. Silver, who prosecutors said had
traded state grant money and influence on tenant legislation in exchange for legal referral fees.
Crusading Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara's six - year battle
against Wall Street got derailed on Monday when the Supreme Court refused to hear the government's appeal of a key insider -
trading case...
Severely hampered in his pursuit of insider
trading on Wall Street by a 2014 court
case, Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara showed financial pros he still has game, announcing insider -
trading charges
against Las Vegas high roller Billy Walters and former Dean Foods Chairman Tom Davis.
In
case you missed it, despite heavy union support for the bill, three
trade unions came out
against it.
Bharara, a former chief counsel to Senator Chuck Schumer, served for seven years and pursued high - profile
cases against Wall Street tycoons accused of insider
trading and elected officials and their aides accused of public corruption.
He won convictions in public corruption
cases against New York State Assemblyman Sheldon Silver and State Senator Dean Skelos, and also brought insider
trading charges
against Bernie Madoff.
Mr. Bharara's office secured convictions or guilty pleas
against more than 70 hedge fund traders, analysts and consultants in insider
trading cases.
Bharara made headlines as U.S. attorney for a legal offensive on insider
trading that led to
cases against dozens of traders, corporate executives and hedge - fund insiders, including the still - jailed Galleon Group co-founder Raj Rajaratnam.
The
case against Martoma, who worked in SAC's CR Intrinsic Investors unit, stemmed from a long - running insider
trading investigation of the hedge fund.
The U.S International
trade Commission finally declared not to review the patent infringement
case of Apple
against the Eastman Kodak yesterday.
Barnes & Noble is asking the U.S. International
Trade Commission to reconsider its decision last week to to dismiss Barnes & Noble's «patent misuse» defense in its
case against Microsoft.
2) I suspect (and this is a bit of a pet theory of mine) that Apple stays in the ebook space primarily to disrupt the educational textbook market (I think that iBooks Author + iTunesU + «cheap» iPad 2s = a strategy for fostering disruption in education at the grass - roots level); their presence in
trade publishing is relatively incidental (this may have not been so at the start — I also suspect that launching iBooks along with iPad was initially a hedge
against uncertainty about user adoption and viable use
cases for the iPad.
The
case was filed
against Amazon and the «big six» publishers — Random House, Penguin, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins and Macmillan — and alleges that contracts between Amazon and the publishers «unreasonably restrain
trade and commerce in the market for ebooks».
One thing we all know about gambling is that the house always wins, the house in the
case would be other traders
trading against you.
They may give you a way to invest in a particular foreign stock market — coupled, in many
cases, with an arrangement that hedges
against movements in the currency that foreign market
trades in.