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April 07, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Tuesday that it brought almost 30% fewer original enforcement actions last year compared to the previous year, a dramatic decrease the agency said follows a past enforcement practice that aimed to "pursue media headlines and run up numbers."
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April 07, 2026
Billionaire business leader Gautam Adani on Tuesday previewed his plans to seek dismissal of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suit accusing him and his nephew of committing securities fraud in connection with a $750 million bond offering, arguing the claims are outside the scope of U.S. courts.
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April 07, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday sued an investment firm, its owner and an attorney in Florida federal court for allegedly misappropriating $2.4 million from at least eight investors in a purported high-yield investment program that promised access to global financial tools.
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April 07, 2026
Winston & Strawn LLP announced Tuesday that it is beefing up its white collar defense and government investigations practice in Washington, D.C., and New York with the addition of two former McDermott Will & Schulte partners, who each have years of compliance experience.
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April 07, 2026
The vast expanse of litigation over sports offerings on prediction markets was jolted by a Third Circuit decision in favor of Kalshi this week, likely further speeding the issue's already fast track to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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April 07, 2026
An investor of cloud-based artificial intelligence lending platform Upstart Holdings Inc. hit the company and its top brass with a proposed class action Tuesday, alleging they misrepresented the accuracy of the company's AI model and how it was affecting Upstart's revenues and growth.
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April 07, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court on Tuesday approved a $190 million settlement resolving long-running stockholder claims that Meta Platforms Inc. mishandled user privacy and board oversight in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, closing out a case that had stretched more than seven years and reached the second day of trial.
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April 07, 2026
A class of investors has reached a deal with Biogen Inc. to avoid a trial and resolve a suit over statements executives made as they launched an Alzheimer's drug, according to a Tuesday filing in Massachusetts federal court.
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April 07, 2026
A jury was right to convict a New Jersey man who made $40 million from filing false tax returns in a countrywide securities fraud scheme, the Third Circuit found in upholding the conviction, saying his arguments were not compelling enough to reverse the guilty verdict.
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April 07, 2026
Law professors have told the Seventh Circuit that an Illinois district court improperly certified a class of investors alleging Boeing misrepresented the 737 Max 8 jets' safety after two deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019, saying there's been a "troubling" pattern of courts blessing classwide damages theories backed by zero evidence.
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April 07, 2026
A documentary filmmaker who worked for ImmunityBio Inc. will pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over $332,000 to end claims she scrambled to sell off her stake in the biotechnology company as it prepared to announce disappointing news about a pending drug application.
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April 07, 2026
An ex-worker for Hormel Foods Corp. asked a Minnesota federal judge to certify a class in his federal benefits lawsuit alleging the company failed to remove high-cost investment options with poor return rates from its $1.2 billion in employee retirement plans.
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April 07, 2026
A former Firstrust Savings Bank worker adequately supported his claims that employees lost millions because they had to invest a portion of their savings in the bank's underperforming proprietary fund, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, denying the bank's motion to dismiss the proposed Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action.
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April 07, 2026
A federal judge rejected a motion to dismiss the insider trading prosecution of a Garden State broker-dealer's ex-partner, ruling that questions about the leadership of the U.S. attorney's office in New Jersey, including findings that prior supervisory appointments were unlawful, do not taint the indictment or require disqualification of the case prosecutors.
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April 07, 2026
A nuclear and radiological waste management company stockholder has filed an amended class action in the Delaware Chancery Court accusing the company's board of miscounting votes on a key equity proposal and later adopting bylaws that unlawfully restrict shareholder rights.
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April 06, 2026
Elon Musk objected Friday to a California federal judge entering judgment against him following a securities fraud verdict over tweets about his $44 billion Twitter acquisition, arguing there are still numerous unresolved issues and entering a final judgment on a classwide basis at this stage is "premature and improper."
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April 06, 2026
A Connecticut attorney found liable for violating securities laws as a part of an alleged sham merger agreement can't get his $631,000 penalty modified after a Boston federal judge rejected the attorney's argument that the penalty sum reflects an unjust "double-count[ing]" error.
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April 06, 2026
The Blockchain Association on Monday urged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to stay the course on its plans to issue exemptions for crypto projects, firing back at Citadel Securities' assertions that decentralized projects should broadly face the same obligations as traditional SEC-regulated intermediaries.
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April 06, 2026
The head of the nation's largest bank on Monday raised doubts about the Trump administration's plan to overhaul bank capital rules, casting it as an improvement on a Biden-era draft while saying it still includes some "frankly nonsensical" aspects.
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April 06, 2026
The Trump administration's latest budget plan calls for a more than 13% increase in spending for the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, with nearly half of its total requested staffing increase for the agency slated for positions focused on deregulation related to the Bank Secrecy Act.
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April 06, 2026
Investors of China-based internet and data center service provider VNET have asked a New York federal judge to preliminarily approve a $5.9 million deal to end claims that the company concealed its founder's default on a loan agreement he entered into with another company using his personal shares of VNET.
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April 06, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday that it reached a $6.61 million settlement with a Texas man who it says raised $6.67 million from roughly 200 investors through an unregistered securities offering built on false claims.
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April 06, 2026
A Chewy Inc. investor has brokered a $29.5 million deal with BC Partners that, if finalized, would settle the investor's derivative suit that alleged BC Partners saddled Chewy investors with potential tax liabilities following a financially unfair downstream merger involving PetSmart Inc., the parties told the Delaware Chancery Court on Monday.
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April 06, 2026
Executives and directors of Charter Communications have been hit with a shareholder's derivative suit accusing them of inflating the company's share prices by concealing its ability to offset internet customer losses after the end of the Federal Communications Commission's pandemic-era Affordable Connectivity Program, which 5 million of its customers had enrolled in.
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April 06, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge has further narrowed a shareholder class action accusing Dick's Sporting Goods of misleading investors about inventory levels and losses because of theft after the COVID-19 pandemic, disagreeing with a magistrate judge on the actionability of some of the suit's challenged statements.