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Burned Before, Bond Markets Resume Rate-Cutting Trades Worldwide
by Gunnar Larson 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

Burned Before, Bond Markets Resume Rate-Cutting Trades Worldwide https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-24/burned-before-bond-marke… Bond traders are cautiously reloading wagers that burned them just weeks ago as the Federal Reserve and key global peers finally appear set to begin reducing interest rates as soon as June.

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LA Atty Who Repped Rodney King Charged With Tax Evasion
by Gunnar Larson 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

LA Atty Who Repped Rodney King Charged With Tax Evasion <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1816851?nl_pk=153d4a8a-6fb9-4a5…> By Elliot Weld A Los Angeles attorney who represented Rodney King in a civil case against the city of Los Angeles after King was severely beaten by police has been hit with federal tax evasion charges. Indictment attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1816851?nl_pk=153d4a8a-6fb9-4a5…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1816851?nl_pk=153d4a8a-6fb9-4a5…>

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Cuomo Sister May Sit For Retaliation Claim Depo, Judge Says
by Gunnar Larson 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

Cuomo Sister May Sit For Retaliation Claim Depo, Judge Says <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1816693?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…> By Pete Brush A Manhattan federal judge provisionally held Friday that Madeline Cuomo, the sister of former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, should sit for a deposition to address claims that she facilitated an effort to retaliate against a woman who has accused the former governor of harassment. 3 documents attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1816693?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1816693?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…>

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Push For Camp Lejeune Jury Trials Seen As Long Shot
by Gunnar Larson 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

Push For Camp Lejeune Jury Trials Seen As Long Shot <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1815391?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…> By Emily Field The legal strategy to secure jury trials in the massive Camp Lejeune water contamination case hangs on a single phrase in a special law stating "nothing" shall impair such trials, but the plaintiffs' gambit is a long shot because Congress didn't go far enough in creating a framework for such trials against the government. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1815391?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1815391?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…>

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JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Six Financial Giants Pay $70, 000, 000 Settlement Over Allegations of 'Widespread Fraud and Collusion' - The Daily Hodl
by Gunnar Larson 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

https://dailyhodl.com/2024/03/23/jpmorgan-chase-bank-of-america-and-six-fin… Eight financial giants are shelling out tens of millions of dollars to settle a decade-long whistleblower lawsuit. JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Fifth Third Bancorp, Barclays, Bank of Montreal (BMO) and William Blair were sued in 2014, accused of reaping millions in illicit profits by rigging interest rates on municipal bonds. ADVERTISEMENT The whistleblower, identified in the lawsuit as Edelweiss Fund LLC, says the firms have paid $70 million to settle the lawsuit. Edelweiss accused the group of Wall Street firms of “widespread fraud and collusion” after the state of Illinois hired them to market municipal bonds known as variable rate demand obligations (VRDOs) at the lowest possible interest rates. VRDOs are tax-exempt bonds issued by municipalities to get long-term financing, usually spanning 20 to 30 years. But instead of marketing the bonds at low interest rates, the banks allegedly inflated the rates to generate millions of dollars in fees and discourage investors from converting the debt securities to cash.

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Trump Media SPAC CEO Accused Of Misleading Investors
by Gunnar Larson 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

Trump Media SPAC CEO Accused Of Misleading Investors <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1816422?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…> By David Minsky A sponsor of the special-purpose acquisition company approved to take Donald Trump's social media website public has sued its CEO in Florida federal court, saying a "coup d'etat" was orchestrated to oust the former leader and mislead investors in an effort to assume control over the enterprise. Complaint attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1816422?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1816422?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…>

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5 Things To Know As SEC Takes Terraform Fraud Case To Trial
by Gunnar Larson 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

5 Things To Know As SEC Takes Terraform Fraud Case To Trial <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1815348?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…> By Aislinn Keely The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's suit against collapsed cryptocurrency project Terraform and its creator Do Kwon takes center stage next week in U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff's courtroom in Manhattan, and at its heart is a question of whether the business deceived investors in the lead-up to the collapse that helped set off the so-called crypto winter. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1815348?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1815348?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…>

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Del. Courts Examining 'Colonoscopy'-Like Bylaw Rules
by Gunnar Larson 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

Del. Courts Examining 'Colonoscopy'-Like Bylaw Rules <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/1812508?nl_pk=6416fd97-1dc4-4e0…> By Leslie A. Pappas Invasive advance-notice bylaws that some observers say make shareholder board nominations as intrusive as a "colonoscopy" are reviving old questions in Delaware courts about how far boards can go to protect themselves against shareholder activism. Opinion attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/1812508?nl_pk=6416fd97-1dc4-4e0…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/1812508?nl_pk=6416fd97-1dc4-4e0…>

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Google Can Arbitrate Collusion Claims While Apple Beats Suit
by Gunnar Larson 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

Google Can Arbitrate Collusion Claims While Apple Beats Suit <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/1816364?nl_pk=6416fd97-1dc4-4e0…> By Lauren Berg For the second time, a California federal judge has forced into arbitration antitrust claims brought by a Golden State crane operator training school accusing Google of paying off Apple to not develop its own search engine while dismissing the rest of the claims against both tech behemoths. Order attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/1816364?nl_pk=6416fd97-1dc4-4e0…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/1816364?nl_pk=6416fd97-1dc4-4e0…>

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New anti-Semitism - for those who missed the new Richard Nixon
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

Harvard legalist, Noah Feldman, faceplants on new product launch. NOAH Feldman acknowledges that, “It is not inherently antisemitic to criticize Israel.” Feldman continues on the question of settler colonialism: ‘The upshot is that while a well-meaning person, free of antisemitism, could describe Israel as colonialist. He admits the current oppression of Palestinians, he even considers the recent charges of genocide in Gaza as worthy of consideration – except that they do not apply in his opinion because of intent. ‘The genocide charge depends on intent’, and ‘Israel, as a state, is not fighting the Gaza War with the intent to destroy the Palestinian people’, he contends. Finally, are not the Israeli politicians uttering clearly recognisable genocidal statements not currently serving in cabinet positions? A point Feldman readily admits, as if it made little difference! Fail, fail again, fail better.

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