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Latest News in Securities

  • February 06, 2026

    SEC Seeks To Enforce $27M Order In NFL, NBA Player Fraud

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge to order a broker-dealer and its sole director to comply with a 2015 commission order requiring them to pay over $27 million in disgorgement and other fines that stemmed from allegations that they ran a Ponzi scheme that swindled NFL and NBA clients out of $12 million.

  • February 06, 2026

    'Very Bizarre': Trump's Funding Freeze Appeal Vexes DC Circ.

    D.C. Circuit judges struggled Friday with whether to unblock a federal funding freeze carrying multitrillion-dollar implications, as a Trump administration lawyer disclaimed interest in a vast spending halt but also dodged opportunities to rule it out unequivocally.

  • February 06, 2026

    NJ Judge Tosses Pacira Investor Suit Over Patent Loss

    A New Jersey federal judge on Friday threw out an investor lawsuit against Pacira BioSciences Inc. after a court invalidated a patent for its key pain management drug, ruling that the pharmaceutical company was not required to disclose litigation setbacks it encountered before the final ruling.

  • February 06, 2026

    Chinese News App Beats Investor Suit Over Ad Revenue

    Chinese news aggregation app Qutoutiao Inc. and its underwriters have beaten a consolidated investor class action accusing the company of illicit advertising activity following its initial public offering, after a New York federal judge found that the plaintiff does not have standing on all the asserted claims.

  • February 06, 2026

    Fla. Real Estate Developer Looks To Escape PE Fraud Suit

    A real estate developer urged a Florida federal court on Thursday to toss a lawsuit brought by former private equity business partners alleging at least $25 million fraud, saying the complaint is a "hodgepodge of mutually exclusive theories" that claim ownership and divestment of several investment companies at the same time.

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