At a Senate Judiciary Commmittee hearing addressing the DOJ’s response to home loan discrimination and foreclosure abuses, Sen.

In the most talked-about letter of this comment period, Occupy the SEC has written the Securities and Exchange Commission, pushing suggestions for strengthening the Volcker Rule, which limits the bets that banks can make through proprietary trading. The Occupy Wall Street offshoot that is helping to define the ongoing debate over the controversial Volcker Rule consists of experts in corporate law and finance — some of them former Wall Streeters themselves.

A Brooklyn man known to neighbors as “the Flying Rabbi” for dispensing advice and blessings on the street cannot get damages from TV host Jimmy Kimmel and ABC for inserting into a comedy segment a video clip of him uploaded to YouTube without his consent, a New York state judge has ruled.

A decade after then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer dusted off the long-dormant Martin Act and deployed it to become the “sheriff of Wall Street,” the Court of Appeals has essentially deputized private citizens in holding for the first time that common-law tort claims are not pre-empted by the law.

A decade after then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer dusted off the long-dormant Martin Act and deployed it to become the “sheriff of Wall Street,” the Court of Appeals has essentially deputized private citizens in holding for the first time that common-law tort claims are not pre-empted by the law.