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The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 104–67 (text), 109 Stat. 737 (codified as amended in scattered sections of 15 U.S.C.) ("PSLRA") implemented several substantive changes in the United States that have affected certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability ...
Securities regulation in the United States is the field of U.S. law that covers transactions and other dealings with securities. The term is usually understood to include both federal and state-level regulation by governmental regulatory agencies, but sometimes may also encompass listing requirements of exchanges like the New York Stock ...
SEC Rule 10b5-1, codified at 17 CFR 240.10b5-1, was enacted as a regulation by the SEC in 2000. [ 11] The SEC stated that Rule 10b5-1 was enacted in order to resolve an unsettled issue over the definition of insider trading, [ 12] which is prohibited by SEC Rule 10b-5. In March 2023, in the first-ever indictment for insider trading based on an ...
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (also called the Exchange Act, '34 Act, or 1934 Act) (Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 73–291, 48 Stat. 881, enacted June 6, 1934, codified at 15 U.S.C. § 78a et seq.) is a law governing the secondary trading of securities (stocks, bonds, and debentures) in the United States of America. [1]
In addition to the SEC’s new data breach disclosure rules, the regulator has also added a new line item called Item 106 to the Regulation S-K that will be included on a company’s annual Form ...
Under the Noerr–Pennington doctrine, private entities are immune from liability under the antitrust laws for attempts to influence the passage or enforcement of laws, even if the laws they advocate for would have anticompetitive effects. [ 1] The doctrine is grounded in the First Amendment protection of political speech, and "upon a ...
Blue sky law. The emptiness of blue sky was a metaphor for the fraudulent basis of some securities that laws named after it sought to prevent by requiring disclosures to investors. A blue sky law is a state law in the United States that regulates the offering and sale of securities to protect the public from fraud.
Securities fraud, also known as stock fraud and investment fraud, is a deceptive practice in the stock or commodities markets that induces investors to make purchase or sale decisions on the basis of false information. [ 1] [failed verification][ 2][ 3] The setups are generally made to result in monetary gain for the deceivers, and generally ...