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  • March 27, 2025

    BREAKING: SEC Drops Defense Of Biden-Era Climate Disclosure Rules

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday it would no longer defend regulations requiring some of the world's largest corporations to publicly disclose the effects climate change could have on their businesses, walking away from an Eighth Circuit challenge to the rules that the agency's acting chair called "unnecessarily intrusive."

  • March 27, 2025

    SEC Nom Suggests He May Open Agency's Doors To DOGE

    President Donald Trump's pick to lead the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday appeared to welcome the potential arrival of Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency at the agency, while also pushing back on suggestions that his earlier votes as a Republican commissioner exacerbated the 2008 financial crisis.

  • March 27, 2025

    Faegre Drinker Securities Ace Joins Spencer Fane In Denver

    Spencer Fane LLP has added a securities litigation partner from Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP to its Denver office, the firm announced Thursday.

  • March 27, 2025

    Paul Atkins' Past Speeches Offer A Glimpse Into SEC's Future

    Following Paul Atkins' Thursday Senate confirmation hearing, a look at his public remarks while serving as a commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission between 2002 and 2008 reveal eight possible structural and procedural changes the SEC may see once he likely takes over as chair, say attorneys at Covington.

  • March 27, 2025

    9th Circ. Won't Stay Injunction Compelling Fed. Worker Rehire

    A split Ninth Circuit panel has refused to block an injunction compelling the Trump administration to reinstate about 16,000 probationary employees to six federal agencies, saying the administration will likely lose its argument that the agencies weren't acting on an order from above when they fired the workers.

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