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6 May 2004
Once upon a time, the federal securities laws had the parochial goal of ensuring that companies provided investors with information material to investment decisions. These days those laws are spreading their wings to accommodate all sorts of goals. Earlier this...
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12 March 2004
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...
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26 February 2004
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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