Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
The biggest impact, according to legal experts, will be to corporations in the energy industry and those with a significant amount of greenhouse emissions. Experts from V&E, Winstead, Porter Hedges, Winston & Strawn, Bradley and Sidley share their insight and analysis on the new proposed rules.
The SEC is expected to create a standardized reporting protocol to provide investors with a clear picture of different industries’ emissions and their progress in adapting their business to a warming planet, according to observers closely tracking the process.
For the first time in Texas history, the SEC charged a Houston area public school district and two of its senior officials with fraudulently misleading investors in the school system’s $20 million bond issuance in 2018.
In Dallas, U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle sentences the two owners of Bitqyck to prison and orders them to pay $1.6 million each in federal income taxes.
Ken Wiles said the amount of increased regulation the proposal outlines could significantly impact firms, with potentially minimal payoff.
Attorneys for UDF argue in new court filings that jurors should have been allowed to hear about a bitter rift pitting United Development Funding and CEO Hollis Greenlaw against Dallas hedge fund manager Kyle Bass.
CEO Hollis Greenlaw and his colleagues at the Grapevine REIT have demanded a new trial after their securities fraud convictions last month. They claim a “mosaic of cumulative error” caused them to be wrongfully convicted of duping investors and banks in a scheme involving loans to developers of hundreds of residential communities across Texas.
The proposal would turn compliance for firms on its head in the name of protecting investors and companies that take private capital.
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