Wall Street to Face Class-Action Suits Over 1990s IPOs
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NEW YORK, Oct. 13 -- The issue of how Wall Street doled out coveted initial public offering shares during the market boom of the late 1990s reverberated on two fronts Wednesday, as a federal judge approved several class-action lawsuits over alleged IPO abuses and the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed new rules designed to clean up the process.
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NEW YORK  -This week could mark the end of the  bull market for Wall Street, with U.S. stocks likely to join a  global equity market plunge triggered by fears of a U.S.  recession.
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San Francisco, September 2: A group of Oracle Corp shareholders can pursue a class action lawsuit that accuses the business software maker and Chief Executive Larry Ellison of covering up losses, a US appeals court said on Wednesday.
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U.S. appeals court judges considered on Tuesday whether a $200 billion lawsuit against big tobacco companies by smokers of "light" cigarettes should be allowed to go ahead as a class action.
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A federal appeals court ordered a lower court yesterday to reconsider whether a lawsuit against underwriters including Citigroup and Morgan Stanley can proceed as a class action.
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Fannie Mae FNM.N, under fire from  regulators, is facing a groundswell of lawsuits from  class-action specialists for billions of dollars in stock  losses stemming from the company's faulty accounting.
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Justices are expected to hear arguments Tuesday in a case that could have broad implications for the tech industry.
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A $200 billion U.S. lawsuit filed by   "light" cigarette smokers gained class action status on Monday,   hammering shares of U.S. tobacco companies.
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Ten top Wall Street firms are sued for $3.5 billion by Overstock.com.
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U.S. stock markets would have to disclose executive pay and provide details of their regulatory programs, under new rules proposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday.
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Wall Street brokerage house Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is close to reaching a deal to pay about $220 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that it and other big brokerage firms participated in a scheme with Enron Corp.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the brokerage firm JB Oxford Holdings and its National Clearing Corporation unit, accusing them of improper mutual fund trading.
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U.S. stocks to watch on Monday: ORACLE  CORP. ORCL.O, PEOPLESOFT INC. PSFT.O:
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Software giant Oracle Corp. began its legal battle with rival PeopleSoft Inc. in Delaware Chancery Court Monday, the first of two cases expected to bring the national business media to the state&#39;s famed court of equity this month.
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Fannie Mae , under fire from regulators, is facing a groundswell of lawsuits from class-action specialists for billions of dollars in stock losses stemming from the company's faulty accounting.
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A barrage of lawsuits has been filed against mutual funds, contending that they did not claim money due their investors from settlements of securities class-action lawsuits.
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Federal prosecutors are strongly considering criminal charges against former executives of Broadcom Corp., Apple Inc., and KLA-Tencor Corp., related to the backdating of stock options, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the situation.