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• Shareholders Face Uphill Battle in Recovery of Losses From Securities Fraud

  Jack Landskroner | June 27, 2007 9:51 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  This week the United States Supreme Court issued an opinion which affirms the heightened standards that shareholders must meet in order to prove securities fraud against a publicly held corporation or its officers in the sale of its securities. Investors that want to sue companies like Enron, Worldcom, Tyco and others who have left investors high and dry after making false and misleading...

• Supreme Court Blocks Faith Based Initiative Suit

  Rebecca Castell | June 25, 2007 12:46 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The US Supreme Court had yet another opportunity to show its Bush-based republicanism today when it refused to allow taxpayers to challenge the use of federal funds to support religous organizations and charities. A group of eight individuals brought the action hoping to reestablish the separation of church and state by preventing religious organizations from applying from federal money. To...

• U.S. Supreme Court Makes It Harder to Sue Companies for Defrauding Investors

  Rebecca Castell | June 22, 2007 12:32 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  In a painful example of the pro-business, anti-consumer attitude of the current US Supreme Court, the Court ruled that investors who want to sue companies and executives for fraud have a higher burden to meet to get their case to court.The court on Thursday waded into the debate on the defendants' side. By a vote of 8 to 1, it said that investors must show "cogent and compelling" evidence of...

• Court of Claims Hears Evidence on Link Between Childhood Vaccinations and Autism

  Rebecca Castell | June 05, 2007 1:43 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  On June 11, the Federal Court of Claims will hear a case on which looks to establish a clear link between childhood vaccinations, specifically vaccinations which contain thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative, and autism. If the court makes the connection, it will prove what many parents of autistic children have already believed to be true: that their child's autism is from the injection...