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Texas Annual Survey: Securities Regulation, George Lee Flint Jr
Texas Annual Survey: Securities Regulation, George Lee Flint Jr
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Securities law opinions during this period fall into two categories. The first deals with incompetent lawyers. In Miller, a state court reinstated a cease and desist order against an issuer whose lawyer failed to object to a witness's testimony when a co-defendant's counsel did. In In re Next Financial Group, the Texas Supreme Court granted mandamus and ordered arbitration for the termination of a broker when the arbitration agreement permitted only an exception for statutory discrimination, not a common law exception to the employment-at-will doctrine.
The second group of cases involve Fifth Circuit opinions discussing securities fraud actions under the …