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On one hand, bills supporting deregulation are garnering legislative support. On the other, a number of high-profile members of Congress have spoken out in favor of stricter rule enforcement and prosecution.

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New Obstacle for Securities-Fraud Suits: A Supreme Court ruling on Monday added a hurdle to investors' efforts to win class-action lawsuits over claims of securities fraud. Companies defending themselves against such lawsuits can now attempt to get them thrown out of court by proving at an early legal stage that misleading statements did not have an impact on stock prices. But the decision in the case of Halliburton v. Erica P. John...

In the fourth installment of The Examiners, our restructuring experts turn their attention from corporations to municipalities.

The recent proposal for the U.S. Postal Service to sell banking services invites comparisons to Walmart's equally controversial, and ultimately abandoned, 2005 bid for a banking charter. Both would-be financial industry game-changers are large and ubiquitous, but there are some notable differences.

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