Finance Law

When it comes to electing and influencing politicians, money amplifies the volume of your voice. As Californians reflect on Tuesday’s primary election results, federal regulators have a chance to do something about the heavy metal concert mics the U.S. Supreme Court handed corporations in the Citizens United case. The high court’s precedent-spurning 2010 decision held [...]

Many parents and the children they send to college are paying rapidly rising prices for something of declining quality. This is because “quality” is not synonymous with “value.” Glenn Harlan Reynolds, University of Tennessee law professor, believes college has become, for many, merely a “status marker” signaling membership in the educated caste, and a place [...]

WASHINGTON – Stricter ID laws and other controversial voting restrictions, passed earlier this year by several Republican-controlled legislatures, are hitting legal roadblocks that could keep many of the measures from taking effect before the November elections. Curbs on early voting, ID requirements and last-minute efforts to rid voter lists of noncitizens have been met with [...]

By PAUL WISEMAN and PETER SVENSSON AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) – The plan to bail out Spain’s banks with up to $125 billion in aid buys European policymakers time to try to save the euro and eases deep fears in global financial markets. The deterioration of Spain’s banks and the pressing need for a [...]

June 8, 2012 3:17 pm By James Wilson

These students from Harvard Law School celebrated in May as they received their degrees during the 361st Commencement Exercises at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Even for these students, the job market for newly minted lawyers remains competitive. BRIAN SNYDER/REUTERS So much for being a highly paid, hotshot lawyer. A Boston law firm is offering [...]

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European leaders hope the promise of such a large aid package, made Saturday in an emergency conference call with Spain, will quell rising financial turmoil ahead of elections in Greece they fear could roil world markets. The decision made Spain the fourth and largest European country to agree to accept emergency assistance as part of [...]

Ford Motor Co. (F) (F)’s return to investment-grade is freeing the second-largest U.S. automaker to borrow in the unsecured debt market, reducing its reliance on asset-backed bonds to lower borrowing costs. Ford’s finance unit was able to sell $1.5 billion of unsecured five-year notes yesterday with a coupon of 3 percent, about 2 percentage points [...]

JURIST Columnist Courtney Joslin, writing the fifth installment of a column authored by the faculty of the University of California, Davis School of Law, says that a Supreme Court decision regarding Social Security benefits for children conceived through in vitro fertilization may have implications for same-sex marriage rights… Who is a parent? Does biology necessarily [...]