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The Securities-Fraud Tide Is Rising
Securities-fraud class action settlements increased in 2009, according to a report released today by Cornerstone Research.

Should investors opt-out of securities fraud class action settlements
Opt-outs and securities fraud litigation... Why some individual investors may be better off going it alone in securities fraud litigation or arbitration.

SEC, Other Agencies Settle with GE Funding in Securities Fraud Case
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday charged GE Funding Capital Market Services, a unit of General Electric Co., with securities fraud, in a case that resulted in two settlements totaling about $70 million...

Poser on Securities Fraud
Securities Fraud and the Common Law, by Norman S. Poser, Brooklyn Law School, was recently posted on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In early cases, the federal courts held that securities fraud was not limited to common law fraud when...

Cornerstones Class Actions Reviews 2009
Last week and in January, the Stanford Law School Securities Class Action Clearinghouse, in cooperation with Cornerstone Research, published two annual securities class action reviews: Filings 2009 and Settlements 2009, respectively...

SEC Finalizes ARS Settlements with Citi and UBS
The SEC finalized settlements with Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. (Citi) and UBS Securities LLC and UBS Financial Services, Inc. (UBS), that will provide nearly $30 billion to tens of thousands of customers who invested in auction rate securities before the...

How to Skirt H-1B Regulations
Senator reacts to YouTube video

Cell Phone Early Termination Fees
How to recover billing errors

H&R Block Retirement Plan Fraud
How to Join Class Action Suit

Further Settlements Reached in Kitec Lawsuit
Kitec Pumbing Further settlements reached in Defective Products Lawsuit

Hormone Replacement Therapy Lawsuits See Multi-Million Dollar Settlements
HRT Lawsuits Pharma Faces Multi Million Dollar Settlements

Brent Lemons
$1.3 million settlement in securities fraud lawsuit.

Securities Fraud
TOP Ships agrees to $1.2 million shareholder class action settlement.

Securities Settlement
GMH Trust Securities to pay $8.75 million in pending class action suit.

Common Stock Shareholders
LaBranche & Co. LLC agrees to $13 million securities fraud class action settlement.