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SEC files subpoena enforcement action against Wells Fargo

March 24, 2012 01:15:00 PM

The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Friday that it filed a subpoena enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Wells Fargo & Company ...

March 13, 2012 10:22:16 AM

The US Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and 49 state attorneys general on Monday filed in federal court a proposed $25 billion settlement agreement with the nation's five...

February 9, 2012 01:11:14 PM

US Attorney General Eric Holder, along with Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan and 49 state attorneys general announced Thursday that a $25 billion agreement was reached with the nation's...

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The Future of the Occupy Movement

December 6, 2011 10:00:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Jules Lobel of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that if the Occupy Movement can create organizational forms that combine its democratic, egalitarian origins with ongoing direct action, a narrative of solidarity, equality and democracy...

November 2, 2011 07:22:34 AM

The US government on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) alleging that Allied Home Mortgage Capital Corporation (Allied) and two of its top executives...

April 24, 2011 01:48:22 PM

A judge for the US District Court for the Central District of California on Friday dismissed Bank of America (BOA) from a $17 billion lawsuit involving securities based on mortgages issued by Countrywide...

February 21, 2011 02:04:17 PM

Federal prosecutors have dropped a criminal investigation against former Countrywide Financial Corporation executive Angelo Mozilo, concluding that he was not involved in any criminal conduct during his time as director over the company, according to Friday...

February 8, 2011 08:02:13 AM

Bank of America (BOA) has reached a $410 million settlement in a class action suit accusing the bank of excessive overdraft fees, according to documents submitted Friday in the US District Court Southern District of Florida [official...

February 3, 2011 01:07:04 PM

The Superior Court of California County of Los Angeles on Wednesday approved a $6.5 million settlement between the state of California and two former Countrywide Financial Corporation executives accused of predatory lending. The lawsuit alleged...

January 26, 2011 02:21:56 PM

Twelve plaintiffs on Monday combined to file a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court against Countrywide Financial Corporation alleging widespread fraud that resulted in substantial financial losses. The plaintiffs invested hundreds...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

UK parliament rejected J.S. Mill's proposal to give women the vote

On May 20, 1867, the British Parliament rejected by 196-73 an amendment to the 1867 Reform Act presented by John Stuart Mill that would have permitted women to vote. Review Mill's 1869 work The Subjection of Women.

Supreme Court applies Free Exercise Clause to state governments

On May 20, 1940, the United States Supreme Court held that the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment applied to state governments in Cantwell v. Connecticut under the incorporation doctrine, which applied the protections of the Bill of Rights to state governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Learn more about the Incorporation Doctrine from the Cornell Law Schools' Legal Information Institute.