SEC Settles Anti-Fraud Violations With Municipal Bond Issuer

Earlier this month the SEC, in the first case of its kind against a municipality, ordered the City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to cease and desist from violating the anti-fraud provisions of the federal securities laws. While the circumstances surrounding this order are.

On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court denied Dr. Ali Shaygan’s petition for review of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit’s reversal of the trial court’s award of attorneys’ fees to Dr. Shaygan based upon misconduct by Federal prosecutors.

A 66-year-old man in Nevada reportedly drove his vehicle to the grocery store despite feeling as though he had a seizure coming on. The man had a seizure while he was driving and he caused a motor vehicle accident that killed two.

As noted at White Collar Criminal Prof Blog and The Justice Fellowship, the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security held a hearing last week on "Over-criminalization of Conduct and Over-federalization of Criminal Law." Organizations which addressed the.

This guy does. Or he did, until he was arrested. An alleged leader of the Norte de Valle cartel, he controlled the way recreational drugs were manufactured, packaged and distributed. He controlled the purity of the drugs, and decided what cutting agents.

A local council has banned parents from supervising their own children from two playgrounds, known as “adventure areas” because they have not been Criminal Records Bureau vetted. Instead they can watch from a perimeter fence. The Watford Council policy has been attacked.

Injustice anywhere is a threat everywhere”, a pivotal and earnest principle; for in the criminal justice system it is preferable for the crimes of ten guilty men to go unpunished rather than to convict one innocent man.  However, how feasible is this.

In October 2009, Judge Jean Hamilton made a ruling on a case (Lasco Foods, Inc. v. Hall and Shaw Sales, Marketing and Consulting, LLC, E.D., Missouri). The case involved a former employee who accessed information using a laptop that was issued by.

A federal grand jury handed down indictments for six defendants in Las Vegas accused of involvement with trafficking pain killers throughout the West. Confidential informants alerted federal drug agents to an operation with more than 40 people involved. The operation involved patients.

I've got two reasons for being interested in the possibility that San Diego voters will make permanent a one-year beach alcohol ban in this year's election. The personal reason is that I'm originally from San Diego and still go down to the beach.