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...Cuban case is, in effect, a high-stakes game of he said-she said. But even if the SEC's version of events holds up in court, there is still a chance that the case could keep going. Stephen Bainbridge, a law professor at UCLA who has followed insider trading law for two decades and written a book on the topic, points out that the case law around whether or not a contract of confidentiality suffices for illegal insider trading "is not as clear as one would like." Some court findings, he says, suggest that it's not enough...
...brought charges against Cuban under a particular legal theory - but the legal theories around illegal insider trading have a long history of getting rewritten in the courts. "He's an interesting guy for them to have picked. He's not going to roll over and play dead," says Bainbridge. "If he wants to, he has the resources to take this case all the way up to the Supreme Court." If it comes to that, the case could take on real significance...
...does not take a Putinologist to figure out the three basics of Russian strategy: court Western Europe, intimidate Eastern Europe, and split both off from the U.S. "Divide and conquer" is a classic of Russian policy, and the courtship always centers on Germany, the strategic fulcrum of the continent...
Probably LeBron James'. He's very, very successful on and off the court. His brand is huge. And right now, off the court, LeBron is performing probably better than anybody, so I'm definitely going to go with the No. 1 brand...
...reorganization option faded after William O. Douglas (then SEC chairman, later a Supreme Court Justice) persuaded Congress in 1938 to approve more punitive bankruptcy laws, but it was resurrected by Congress in 1978 as Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code. Since then Chapter 11 has been used to reorganize airlines, steelmakers and countless other companies in trouble...