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26 February 2004

House Finl Svcs Comm Assists SEC, Slams Top 250 Companies

Yesterday the House Committee on Financial Services announced that it had approved the Securities Fraud Deterrence and Investor Restitution Act (H.R. 2179). The committee print of H.R. 2179 and the various amendments offered at yesterday's hearing can be viewed here....

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25 February 2004

Painful Lessons: How Pete Rose Paid $1,000,000 For a Meaningless Contract Clause

Last month Sports Illustrated reprinted an excerpt from Pete Rose's quasi-semi-sorta-confessional book My Prison Without Bars. The baseball part of my brain started reading the excerpt, but the corp law part of my brain took over when I got to...

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