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On March 27, 2013, the Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Scalia, held that putative antitrust class plaintiffs must affirmatively establish that damages are capable of measurement o...
As proxy season gets under way and the usual agitation over the influence of the proxy advisory firms begins, the Chamber of Commerce is trying to set some ground rules for the three main...
In a case that potentially has important implications for U.S. antitrust enforcement and for U.S. trade relations with the People’s Republic of China, this month a New York jury found C...
The staff of the SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets recently released answers to frequently asked questions (“FAQs”) about Securities Exchange Act Rule 15a-6, which are available...
After more than a decade of litigation in the lower courts, the Supreme Court yesterday heard oral argument in a case of considerable consequence to the pharmaceutical industry. The issue...
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SEC Issues Risk Alert Identifying Significant Deficiencies in Compliance with the Custody R...
We spoke with Agenda for its recent article, “Large Companies Have Strictest Director Independence Standards” (subscription required), which explored the Conference Board’s 2013 Dir...
Hewlett-Packard’s annual meeting yesterday was preceded by a bustle of activity around the agenda items, with a string of news reports announcing that as many as 5 of its 11 board membe...
Is there a difference between a shareholder proposal that asks that the Board’s chairman be an independent director as defined by the rules of the New York Stock Exchange and who has no...
ISS QuickScores are now publicly available on companies’ Yahoo Finance pages, under the Business Summary link. The Corporate Governance section reports, as of March 1, 2013, a company?...