The Race to the Bottom got a nice mention in this months edition of the Student Lawyer Magazine, an ABA publication.   As the Student Lawyer describes:    The University of Denver Sturm College of Law –based corporate governance blog, The Race to...

The Dodd bill contains a provision that would require say on pay.  The vote is advisory and extends to all companies subject to the proxy rules (any company with 500 shareholdes of record and $10 million in assets).   The provision puts the SEC...

It is difficult to predict the outcome of a case from the questions at oral argument.  Nonetheless, the tenor of the questioning makes this case possible to predict.  Most of the Justices were active in their questioning, particularly Justice...

One of the most puzzling things about this area of law has been the judicial interpretation of the Supreme Court's analysis in Lampf.  Lampf held that under Rule 10b-5, the courts should look to the one year, three year limitations period in Section...

The argument in the faculty amicus brief could be summed up in two words:  Plain meaning.  The language of the statute provided that the two year limitations period began to run after discovery.  It did not provide that the limitations period should...