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Cuban Demand For Legal Fees May Have Spurred SEC Appeal
on Nov 29, 1999 in Interview Law Regulation Uncategorized Legal mark cuban SEC Last week the SEC announced that it intended to appeal the dimissal of insider trading charges against Mark Cuban. Cuban is accused of having sold his stake in Mamma.com after the company’s chief executive officer informed him that the company pla...
OFT Stops Misleading Magnetic Therapy Claims
on May 2, 2006 in Consumer Protection OFT Regulation The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has successfully stopped claims by a company that claimed its magnetic jewellery could offer pain relief and reduce swelling. Magna Jewellery Limited had suggested that magnetic therapy could help with a variety of me...
Regulate Management and Business Conduct
on Feb 15, 2007 in regulation ethics legislation business ethics managerial ethics This is a call to governmental actors to regulate management and business conduct.In the Olymel saga here in Quebec, a factory's workforce was threatened with layoffs unless they accepted paycuts, and management was simulatenously promised raises. Th...
The Unknown Education Revolution in India
on Mar 7, 2007 in public_policy education regulation government reforms This is an op-ed piece of mine that appeared in today's issue of Mint. In response to the photo-post Photo-state of schools in an urban slum in Delhi, there were a few comments and emails deploring the state of schooling. I couldnt present the empiri...
The Prolife Lie
on May 18, 2007 in Bob Enyart Partial Birth Abortion RIght to Life Pro Life Stupidity Regulation Focus on the Family The right to life movement has raised alot of money, and I do mean alot of money, and has spent large amounts of time lobbying to elect "prolife" politicians and getting so called prolife judges appointed to the bench. Parachurch and Christian famil...