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- Prior “Minimal” Contact Between an Arbitrator and Counsel Held Insufficient to Vacate Arbitral Award
These include: (1) “corruption, fraud, or misconduct in procuring the award”; (2) partiality of the arbitrator
- New Study: VA Whistleblowers More Likely to Receive Disciplinary Action
rest of the report is that senior VA officials who were found guilty of misconduct --whether it be fraud
- The Majority Owners Of Bareburger Are Told By The New York Supreme Court That They Can't Have It Their Way
self-dealing and usurpation of a corporate opportunity); trademark infringement under the Lanham Act; fraud on the trademark office; fraudulent conveyance (constructive and intentional); and, aiding and abetting affirmatively assists, helps conceal, or by virtue of failing to act when required to do so enables the fraud The court did, however, did dismiss plaintiff’s fraudulent conveyance and fraud on the PTO causes of
- Under New York and Federal Law, Appraisal Agreements Are Enforced as If They Were Arbitration Agreements
2018, Gluck brought an action in New York Supreme Court to rescind the Amendment on the grounds of fraud
- Troubles Continue to Mount for Wells Fargo & Co.
In particular, some of the complaints raised the possibility that fraudulent deposits of unknown origin company is cooperating with the regulator and that its goal is to protect customers and the bank from fraud The question remains as to whether Wells Fargo was overzealous in closing the accounts to prevent fraud
- Change of Venue Procedures
the challenging party to be unreasonable, unjust, in contravention of public policy, invalid due to fraud
- Failure To Plead Demand Futility Warrants Dismissal Of Derivative Complaint
When Glaubach recovered from his illness and returned to Personal Touch, he blew the whistle on the fraud The firm discovered the fraud and advised Glaubach of it. PwC was told of the fraud and improper activities and reexamined and reevaluated the previous years’ Glaubach claimed that due to the fraudulent activities at the company and the alleged accounting malpractice Specifically, he demanded that the Board take “‘action against all parties who received monies fraudulently
- SEC Enforcement News: Protection of the Retail Investor
Torres, brokers who were previously charged with fraud in September 2017 (here). The SEC previously filed fraud charges against Connell (here), who was also criminally charged by the
- Failure to Plead Demand Futility Results in Dismissal of a Shareholder Derivative Action Against the Officers and Directors of GE
The complaint must “allege facts, such as self-dealing, fraud or bad faith” to show that the subject Plaintiffs alleged that the SEC had charged GE with accounting fraud previously in relation to these “that the Director Defendants personally benefited from the practice” or identifying the specific, fraudulent
- Seventh Circuit Adopts Proximate Cause Standard In Fca Cases, Overrules Causation Precedent
The district court concluded that “ ecause the certification on the V-forms constituted fraud in fulfilling the causation issue, Luce argued that the Supreme Court’s instruction in Escobar to apply common-law fraud In this regard, the Court found: First, the Government’s actions following its discovery of his fraud in Escobar , it nevertheless instructed the courts to interpret the FCA consistently with common-law fraud At common law, a fraudulent misrepresentation is the legal cause of a monetary loss “only if the loss
- The Sec Awards $22 Million to a Company Insider Who Helped Uncover a Well-hidden Fraud
it awarded a company insider $22.5 million for providing “detailed” information about a “well-hidden fraud recognized the “extensive assistance” provided by the whistleblower in “help the agency halt” the fraud According to the news media, the fraud concerned accounting improprieties involving a rebate program assistance, it would have been extremely difficult for law enforcement to discover this securities fraud
- Defendant Not Equitably Estopped From Asserting a Personal Jurisdiction Defense Says the First Department
Application of the doctrine requires only reliance and prejudice; it does not require the “existence of fraud
