The ISBA published in its September 2014 Business & Securities Law Forum Newsletter an article authored by attorney Michael Karnuth titled "Dodd-Frank provides incentives and enhanced protections for individuals to blow its new, shiny "whistle," but Sarbanes-Oxley's old whistleblower protections may have more luster in certain situations."
The ISBA published in its Business & Securities Law Forum Newsletter an article authored by attorney Michael Karnuth titled "Amgen eases securities fraud plaintiffs' burden at class certification, but the dissent invites challenges to the long-standing 'fraud-on-the-market' theory."
Action on behalf of homeowners/borrowers who had a mortgage foreclosure pursued against them by an entity who purportedly acquired ownership of the loan through a fraudulent assignment prepared by Lender Processing Services and/or its subsidiary DocX and who lacked standing to pursue the foreclosure. Prevailed on Citibank’s motion to dismiss pursuant to Illinois’ Citizens Participation Act.
On September 3, 2010, The Honorable Claudia Wilken, United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of California, permitted Plaintiff Martin Murray to continue to assert his class claims against Defendants Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Electrolux Home Products, Inc. for violating various California consumer protection statutes as a result of Defendants' deceptive advertising practices.