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Remarks, Golden Pen Award, Mary Beth Beazley
Remarks, Golden Pen Award, Mary Beth Beazley
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Professor Beazley, then President of the Legal Writing Institute, joins her colleagues in presenting the inaugural Golden Pen Award to Arthur Levitt, Chairman of the United States Securities Exchange Commission, for his leadership in requiring plain language in financial disclosure documents, in this transcript of the presentation of the award at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
Muddy Waters, Blue Skies: Civil Liability Under The Mississippi Securities Act, Keith A. Rowley
Muddy Waters, Blue Skies: Civil Liability Under The Mississippi Securities Act, Keith A. Rowley
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The decade of the 1990s produced a series of actions by the United States Supreme Court and by Congress that, collectively, reduced the number of avenues by which plaintiffs relying on federal law may pursue alleged wrongdoers for securities fraud; imposed significant additional requirements on plaintiffs suing under federal securities law; preempted state registration requirements for several classes of securities; and curbed the availability of state courts as an alternative forum in which plaintiffs may pursue securities fraud claims. And yet, in spite of these changes, “Congress, the courts, and the SEC have made explicit that federal regulation was not …