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Ontario Condo Law Blog
Best of the blogosphere for May 2010
This month's collection of the best of the blogosphere contains a blend of the latest news, some time-tested advice and revisiting recurring issues.
The Faculty Lounge
Société Générale: Back In The Saddle Again
The trial of Jérôme Kerviel, the rogue trader blamed by Société Générale for losses of €4.9bn, begins tomorrow in Paris. According to the FT: He faces up to five years…
Securities Law Prof Blog
New York Appellate Court Bars Holder Claims as Inconsistent with Out-of-Pocket Rule
A New York appellate court (First Dept.) recently held, in Starr Foundation v. American International Group, Inc. (Download StarrFdnvAIG) that holder claims are not recognized in New York law because they…
Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest
FSA Bans Former Broker Employee for Fraud
By Edward Black
On May 25, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) announced that it had prohibited John White, a former employee of Seymour Pierce Limited, from working in financial services for committing…
Securities Law Prof Blog
SEC Charges Famous NYC Adviser with Stealing Clients’ Money
The SEC charged Manhattan-based financial advisor Kenneth Ira Starr (whom the press identifies as a financial adviser to the stars) with fraud and is seeking an emergency court order to freeze his…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Idiot Inside Traders
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
This weekthe FBI arrested the administrative assistant to a high-level Disney executiveand her boyfriend. Turns out they were not the smartest couple of insidetraders out there. The SEC’scomplaint speaks for…
The Faculty Lounge
Enron, Jeff Skilling, and the Crime of Honest Services Fraud
Loungers with an interest in the Supreme Court's forthcoming opinion in Skilling v. United States and the constitutional challenge to the federal "honest services" fraud statute may wish to read…
Sentencing Law and Policy
A failed effort to fake past military service to get a lenient federal sentence
Main May 12, 2010A failed effort to fake past military service to get a lenient federal sentenceThis local article from Vermont, which is headlined "Phony military records surface in Burlington…
International Law Prof Blog
What Liability for Fake Passports?
A senior Hamas figure, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, was killed in Dubai earlier this year. His alleged assassins are 11 persons who traveled to Dubai using the following passports:United Kingdom (6 passport holders)Ireland (3)Germany (1)France…
California Employment Law Update
Porsche Dealer May Owe “Finder’s Fee” To Salesperson
By Tony Oncidi
Wald v. Truspeed, 184 Cal. App. 4th 378 (2010) Alex Wald, who is in the business of “finding, buying and then selling again used Porsches,” found 11 Porsches for Truspeed…