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Wall Street Journal, August 5, 2010: UBS to Pay $81 Million in Auction-Rate Case

UBS AG has been ordered to pay 10 times the amount a Maryland marketer of cellphones originally invested in auction-rate…

The Daily Record: Telos wins key ruling; shareholder derivative claims dismissed

A judge in Baltimore has thrown out the shareholder derivative claims in a $79 million-plus lawsuit against several directors and…

USA Today: SEC makes inroads against financial spam

Showing it is making good on a promise six months ago to crack down on spam intended to take advantage…

Baltimore Business Journal: Indicted CFO sues U.S. Food

Former U.S. Foodservice Chief Financial Officer Michael J. Resnick, who faces criminal charges related to U.S. Food’s 2003 accounting scandal,…

The Los Angeles Times: ChoicePoint Signals Stepped-Up Probe

Federal regulators may have intensified their probe of ChoicePoint Inc., the data broker under fire for disclosing sensitive information about…

The Baltimore Sun: AOL Time Warner probe tests nerves

In 1997, a young law student named Gregory Todd Lawrence concluded in a 35,000-word analysis that faulty legwork by a…