Legal Research

"Not Sure What Financial Companies [Lehman, e.g.] Are Worth"
The title is a quote from today's New York Times. How can this be when the companies are publicly traded and liquid and deep stock and debt markets? The government, that's how. By dabbling in the financial markets the government...

Russia, Soup, and the Challenges of Emerging Markets
Russia makes a lot of people's lists of hot growing markets into which American companies should expand. It is the "R" in BRIC, the acronym describing "must be in" emerging markets -- the others being Brazil, India and China...

SEC Trading & Markets Div. on Bear Stearns
The SEC's Division of Trading and Markets today issued the following statement regarding The Bear Stearns Companies: "The decision by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to provide The Bear Stearns Companies temporary funding through J...

Comparing the financial markets and the telecom markets
This article says - if you leave the telecommunications companies to their own devices on net neutrality, they will screw things up as bad as the financial companies have done, for the same reasons - because the laws are relics of the Depression era, and inadequate in the modern age to ensure some minimum protections for the public.

Multisided Media Markets: Applying the Theory of Multisided Markets to Media Markets
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Nadine Lindstädt (Department of Environmental and Business Economics, University of Southern Denmark) undertakes Multisided Media Markets: Applying the Theory of Multisided Markets to Media Markets...

Going Public, but Not in U.S. Markets
Foreign companies that decide to go public are shunning American equity markets, according to the findings of an ad hoc committee of academic and business leaders concerned that regulation and litigation are putting U...

Two Energy Companies Settle Whistleblower Qui Tam Suit
Two Energy Companies Settle Whistleblower Qui Tam Suit

Robert Fresh Markets Win $21.6 Million Insurance Lawsuit
Robert Fresh Groceries Wins $21.6 Million Katrina Insurance Lawsuit

Chemical Companies
alleging danger to people living near the plants.

Hedge Funds
alleging companies involved in mortgage fraud.

Laurin Maritime et al
Class Action Launched Against Companies Responsible for Mississippi Oil Spill

Google
alleging that companies who used internet advertising to sell mobile content have overpaid for keywords.