Restraining Regulators From Making Rules Through Enforcement Actions
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It used to be that going after Goliath meant taking on the banks. Now it means banks taking on the regulators.
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After five years of stepped-up post-Enron-WorldCom oversight, are we in the midst of a regulatory retreat?
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A media sting operation gone awry revives a debate on media regulation
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For U.S. rule-watchers who live in the digital world, the new searchable online version of the Bush administration's semi-annual regulatory agenda is an early holiday gift. For those who like to scoff at 1,500-page lists of documents, it's cause for Scrooge-like complaints.
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Federal regulators proposed a plan on Tuesday to strengthen governance at stock exchanges and move them toward separating their self-policing functions from business operations to ensure that they serve investors&#39; interests.
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By Mimi Hall  WASHINGTON -- New government rules seeking to thwart terrorist attacks on chemical plants are facing stiff opposition from state leaders, environmentalists and others who say the regulations are flawed, vague and unlikely to protect the public.
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WASHINGTON -- Two senators who wrote a tough but little-understood law to protect corporate whistle-blowers are pressing the Securities and Exchange Commission for aggressive enforcement, just as a case emerges that could determine how companies are policed.
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By KERRY CAVANAUGH\\ Staff Writer  Frustrated that a Sunland-Tujunga developer has skirted building regulations with few penalties, City Councilwoman Wendy Greuel said Monday she wants to give municipal agencies more power to stop and punish rulebreakers.
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Business & money: New rules to protect tenants from unscrupulous landlords and letting agencies could be on the way
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Wall Street blames overregulation for pushing companies overseas. Why the law is getting a bad rap
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LUXEMBOURG - The judge deciding whether Microsoft Corp. must comply with the European Commission's remedies for the company's antitrust violations questioned Friday whether the steps ordered by the Commission will effectively curb Microsoft's power.
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Legislators, regulators and the phone industry are all considering ways to clamp down on unauthorized releases of phone records like those in the Hewlett-Packard case.
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In the battle to bust Eastern European carding syndicates, the biggest obstacles are sometimes the foreign law enforcement agents protecting them. By Kim Zetter.
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For Congress to do anything that helps protect consumers and the critical Internet infrastructure as a whole, it must pass laws that require proactive processes to protect computers, not that tell people how to deal with the resulting mess, writes columnist Ira Winkler.
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Rules to prevent fraud going undetected at US companies are to be amended after complaints they are too costly.
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Restrictive hardware and convoluted rights management crimp consumer choices.
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The federal judge handling lawsuits against the nation's telecoms rules the companies have to answer spying allegations. But the real point is to force the feds to show their cards. In 27B Stroke 6.