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Category: SEC

Storm Clouds Brewing in the Supreme Court

Major Questions Loom Over SEC’s Climate-Disclosure Rules

Storm Clouds Brewing in the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court’s emboldened majority has used a controversial doctrine favored by conservatives to great effect lately. First, justices relied on it in striking down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s pandemic-related evict...

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Elon Musk Says It’s High Time to End Twitter Deal

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It’s official: No one has ever spent more on bad marijuana jokes than former Saturday Night Live guest host and current Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The world’s richest man previously dabbled in cannabis humor with a 2018 tweet about taking Tesla p...

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Human Capital: The SEC’s Next Disclosure Frontier

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The Securities and Exchange Commission this year proposed new rules regarding corporate disclosures of environmental performance to great fanfare. A less-heralded ESG-related proposal also seems to be in the works, as the agency is working...

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NFT Regulation Starts to Take Shape

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Sports and non-fungible tokens – better known as NFTs – seem like a perfect match. After all, sports fanatics love collecting memorabilia celebrating their favorite players and teams. It should come as little surprise, then, that a survey o...

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Private Eyes: Boards Evaluating Flood of Take-Private Offers

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Nearly six months into 2022, an auto company executive’s drama-filled bid to buy a social media platform stands out as the story of the year in the dealmaking world. But Elon Musk’s potential acquisition of Twitter has been part of a run of...

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