by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Apr 6, 2024 | Opinion, Russ Ryan
When the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Volkswagen with fraud five years ago, the company emphatically disputed the charges as “legally and factually flawed” while assuring shareholders it would “vigorously” contest them. Fast forward to 2024. The SEC and...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Mar 21, 2024 | Opinion, Russ Ryan
Imagine you’ve just endured a nasty lawsuit where your adversary convinces the court you deserved to be punished. Before lodging your appeal, you’re sued in a different tribunal for even more punishment—and the judge assigned to decide that new case is your erstwhile...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Mar 8, 2024 | Blog, Russ Ryan
If there’s anything good about the current Administration’s relentless raid on the public fisc to give away billions of taxpayer dollars to relatively well-educated and affluent student-loan debtors—and let’s face it, there really isn’t—it should be a serious...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Dec 12, 2023 | Opinion, Russ Ryan
It’s good to be a powerful regulator that sets its own budget without much congressional oversight or a need to beg elected representatives for annual appropriations. Most Americans are feeling the squeeze of runaway inflation and stagnant wage growth, but not the...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Jun 9, 2023 | Opinion, Russ Ryan
Earlier this month on a Friday afternoon, the Securities and Exchange Commission quietly issued an extraordinary administrative order. In one fell swoop, the SEC unconditionally abandoned more than 40 enforcement cases the agency had previously spent untold staff...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Oct 19, 2023 | Blog, Russ Ryan
When a judge says something is illegal, most people stop doing it and change their ways. Not so with federal agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. In recent years, three different federal judges have...
