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...securities law point out that Internet stock-fraud cases are such a new and rapidly evolving area of jurisprudence that it is too soon to tell how judges will treat the SEC's recent wave of them. "Messages on stock bulletin boards are nothing more than graffiti," argues Mark Werksman, a lawyer for one of the California defendants. "Posting them is an exercise in free speech that imposes no clear legal obligation...
...heinous crime," Cash wrote in an angry e-mail sent to the San Francisco Chronicle and the Daily Californian. "I did not witness the alleged molestation and murder." Staying mostly out of sight in his dorm room in modernistic Putnam Hall, Cash gave no interviews. His lawyer, Mark Werksman, however, said Cash "regrets" his statements to the Los Angeles Times. Werksman warned that lashing out in frustration to expel Cash is no answer either. Then the lawyer sighed. "What can I say? I can't explain or justify what he said...
...recession, one new publication is off to a smashing start. The Quayle Quarterly has watched its circulation leap eightfold in just a year. The Connecticut-based newsletter, dedicated to keeping "a watchful eye on the vice presidency," has become required reading for 16,000 political junkies. Co-founder Deborah Werksman insists that her magazine treats its subject fairly, and attributes its success to the "high level of civic anxiety" + about the man who could be President...
Quayle's handlers apparently take the journal seriously as well. When Werksman appeared on the Phil Donahue show, G.O.P. mediameister Roger Ailes and vice-presidential spokesman David Beckwith were on hand to defend their man as a heavyweight. Letters to the editor run both pro ("He's doing the best he can do with what God gave him") and con ("a yuppie Frankenstein...
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