Law
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has scored an early victory in a case against a Florida investment adviser accused of running a $39 million fraud scheme, with a Sunshine State federal court freezing the adviser’s assets and putting the firm into receivership… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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California-based short-form streaming startup Quibi sued a competitor on Friday in Los Angeles federal court, accusing the rival of mounting a “campaign of threats and harassment” centering on baseless claims of patent infringement and trade secret theft… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A financial manager who had previously scammed “Cool Hand Luke” actor Harry Dean Stanton lost a bid Monday at the Sixth Circuit challenging his 10-year sentence in a separate case in which he was accused of ripping off several senior citizens, including his own father… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Authorities are investigating the possibility that a federal prosecutor in Northern California may have shot his wife dead and then killed himself, local and federal law enforcement agencies said Monday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Germ-X can’t protect against the coronavirus, but the company that makes the popular hand sanitizer has falsely claimed that it can fight off the headline-grabbing pathogen and certain other disease-causing germs, according to a proposed class action in California federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 