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Fee-Shifting And The SEC: Does It Still Believe In Private Enforcement?
John C. Coffee, Jr. is the Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law at Columbia University and Director of its Center on Corporate Governance. This opinion piece is an elaboration on, and extension of, testimony that Professor Coffee gave on October 9, 2014, before the SEC's Investor Advisory...
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In Today’s World Of Imperfect Regulation, The Smart Compliance Money Goes To Strategic Risk Mitigation
Recent news headlines share common themes and raise cautionary flags for harried legal, risk and compliance professionals: The 2014 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to a professor whose career has been focused on the premise that financial markets and most industries are...
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Once The Whistle Has Sounded: Courts Should Aggressively Enforce The False Claims Act's First-To-File Bar
The False Claims Act's ("FCA") first-to-file bar – 31 U.S.C. § 3730(b)(5) – encourages a race to the courthouse to reward a qui tam relator who promptly discloses fraud. In essence, the rule creates an incentive for relators to alert the government to the essential...
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