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29 March 2004

Eliot Spitzer’s Urtext

Recently while engaging in some particularly deep legal research, I came across the earliest-known version of New York's Martin Act:102. If a merchant entrust money to an agent (broker) for some investment, and the broker suffer a loss in the...

26 March 2004

Essential Sources: These Are a Few of My Favorite Corp Law Web Sites

A few months ago I penned a paean to the SEC's website (see "A Random Walk Through the SEC's Website"), gushing that it was the most "essential corporate law source of them all." At the time, I figured I'd soon...

12 March 2004

SEC Adopts “Real-Time” 8-K Disclosures

Yesterday the SEC announced that it adopted new 8-K reporting rules previously proposed in June 2002. Although initially proposed before the Sarbanes-Oxley Act passed, the new rules are intended to respond to Section 409 of the Act, which requires public...