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That same month, the SEC charged a New York-based brokerage firm, Hold Brothers On-Line Investment Service, and three of its executives for allowing traders outside the U.S. to access the markets and conduct manipulative trading through accounts the firm controlled. [109]
The SEC runs a whistleblower rewards program, which rewards individuals who report violations of securities laws to the SEC. [ 66 ] [ 67 ] The program began in 2011 with the passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and allows whistleblowers to be given 10–30% of the penalties collected by the SEC and other ...
California Civil Code § 3369, enacted in 1872, was California's early unfair competition statute. It "addressed only the availability of civil remedies for business violations in cases of penalty, forfeiture, and criminal violation." [3] A 1933 amendment expanded the law to prohibit "any person [from] performing an act of unfair competition."
In a 3-0 decision on Wednesday, the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of six private equity and hedge fund groups, finding the SEC exceeded its authority by ...
Equity Residential was sued in a class action in 2017 due to allegations that it charged late payment fees in violation of California law. [20] [21]In 2022, the company agreed to pay approximately $2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by Attorney General for the District of Columbia Karl Racine alleging that the company offered misleading rent discounts on a rent-controlled building in ...
A class action lawsuit filed against T-Mobile alleges the company charges a hidden fee by misleading customers since 2004. ... according to a complaint filed in California federal court by 23 ...
Critics said paying brokers' fees serves as a barrier to those who’d otherwise move to the city while preventing low-income New Yorkers from relocating to new homes. Such broker fees were ...
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy (Docket No. 22-859) [1] was a case before the Supreme Court of the United States.In May 2022, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held, under certain statutory provisions, the Securities and Exchange Commission's administrative adjudication of fraud claims without jury trials in their administrative proceedings with their own administrative ...