A federal judge has ruled that the SEC could substitute the executor for the estate of Charles Wyly Jr. in an insider trading case against the now-deceased billionaire

A federal judge has dismissed individual investors’ securities claims against Vivendi related to ordinary shares they purchased on the Paris Bourse, finding that the claims are barred by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Morrison decision

A group of confidential witnesses cited in a securities class action complaint against Bear Stearns isn’t going to be confidential for much longer.

EchoStar failed in its duty to preserve relevant emails leading up to a $2.5 billion contract dispute, an appellate panel has ruled, becoming the first New York state appeal court to apply the standard for spoliation of electronic evidence set forth in 2003 by a New York federal judge in Zubulake.

A federal judge has rejected motions by Evanston Insurance and its parent corporation, Markel Corp., to toss MGA Entertainment’s attempts to force them to pay its legal costs for the past two years of its battle against Mattel over copyrights to the Bratz dolls.