Finance Law

When the Supreme Court ventures into the subject of corporate political spending, it has a way of fogging the minds of its critics. Earlier this year, lamenting the infamous 2010 Citizens United decision, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said, “The rights of Vermonters and all Americans to speak to each other and to be heard should [...]

Editor’s note: Stephen B. Presser is the Raoul Berger professor of legal history at Northwestern University’s School of Law and a professor of business law at its Kellogg School of Management. He signed two of the amicus briefs submitted to the Supreme Court challenging the health care law. (CNN) — A little more than 400 [...]

Former Sumner Superintendent Gil Mendoza agreed Thursday to pay $2,000 in fines for failing to comply with Washington political campaign laws. The state Public Disclosure Commission fined Mendoza $4,500 but suspended $2,500 provided that he pays the remainder within two weeks of the commission’s final order, and commits no further violations for the next four [...]

By Huw Jones and Steve Slater LONDON | Thu Jun 28, 2012 4:25pm BST LONDON (Reuters) – This time last year the European Banking Authority was fighting a losing battle with Germany’s financial regulator, just seven months after it started work as the EU’s new supranational watchdog charged with overcoming national differences to tackle the [...]

Thu Jun 28, 2012 4:32pm IST

Southwestern Law School dean Bryant Garth Howard University School of Law’s Kurt Schmoke image: Stacey Cramp/Legal Times Things may have slowed down for the summer on the nation’s law school campuses, but there’s plenty of activity among the ranks of law deans. On June 27, North Carolina Central University School of Law named Charlotte School [...]

Print this Article Email this Article FREETOWN — The Freetown-Lakeville Regional School Committee’s request to borrow more than $900,000 for technology improvements will highlight Thursday’s Special Town Meeting. Only three articles are on the warrant for the session which will be held at 7 p.m. at the Freetown Elementary School. Article Two addresses whether the [...]

While the talk has been mostly about Spain and Cyprus, European leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday and Friday must confront broader problems in the banking system if they want to stabilize the euro zone, economists say. What country could be next to face a banking crisis? It may not be one of the usual [...]

Thu Jun 28, 2012 8:15pm IST

GULFPORT, Fla., June 27, 2012 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz is the new dean of Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport/Tampa, Fla. Dean Pietruszkiewicz joins Stetson from the LSU Law Center at Louisiana State University, where he served as vice chancellor for business and financial affairs and as the J.Y. Sanders Professor of Law. [...]