Under a new law, the state is able to pursue civil actions against suspected insider dealers.
Now the agency is pushing for greater access to grand-jury information from criminal prosecutions for use in civil actions.
Civil actions may be initiated under state laws governing theft, violation of privacy and even stalking, experts said.
The actions could involve criminal as well as civil actions, the sources say.
Despite that, some games makers have launched civil actions against pirate shops.
Revenue recognition fraud has been called one of the major accounting issues in the U.S. The SEC has filed recent civil actions alleging it against ex-officials of publicly traded Qwest Communications and Homestore.
Corzine could still face civil actions by regulators.
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Bernard Madoff's criminal activities have spawned a tidal wave of civil actions against Mark Madoff, his mother, siblings and hundreds of other defendants, accused of profiting off the Ponzi scheme by withdrawing more money from Madoff's fund than they invested, money they presumably thought was investment income.
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For example, under federal securities laws, there are statutes and rules permitting SEC administrative and civil enforcement actions and private causes of action which do not impose a requirement to plead or prove scienter.
Its members are encouraging more civil disobedience actions.
The other payment processor companies involved in the civil forfeiture actions were run by Brian Kenny and Javier Carillo, both of whom court documents say facilitated payments to Washington state residents derived from online poker play at UltimateBet.
Wade, this is the first ruling in a whole series of both civil and criminal actions against the officers of this political action committee.
In declining to extend the Discovery Rule to government civil penalty enforcement actions, the Court cast the government as a unique plaintiff often tasked with rooting out fraud and armed with many arrows in its quiver just for such an undertaking.
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Last year in North Carolina, over one-third of the civil cases were collection actions.
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The same conclusion does not follow for the Government in the context of enforcement actions for civil penalties.
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There are good reasons why the fraud discovery rule has not been extended to Government enforcement actions for civil penalties.
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What specific actions can civil society and the media take to effectively lobby their governments for a better governance and financing of education?
Failure to disclose a material fact (or the material misrepresentation of an asserted fact) is the basis for administrative, civil, and criminal actions under all of the securities laws requiring disclosure.
And the man himself, who all this time has been in theory subject to a civil charge for his actions in April 1996, is now threatened with an army court-martial for failing to turn up to be arrested.
The first minister said the Civil Service Commission confirmed his actions were within the rules of the commission's recruitment policy.
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In Schiedler v. the National Organization for Women, the Supreme Court determined that, in theory, even a political advocacy group could be subject to a civil-RICO accusation for actions that have nothing to do with financial gain.
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But the head of Rio de Janeiro civil police, Martha Rocha, found his actions unsuitable for a police station chief.
In July 2008, about the same time as these two insider trading violations presented here, Douglas Rappaport and Joshua Sohn, partners at DLA Piper, published an article The New York Law Journal on the subject of what actions would constitute criminal action versus civil action for insider trading.
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His actions were rare and powerful acts of civil disobedience not commonly seen in our generation.
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McCain has written about Lewis in the past, praising his actions in Selma, Alabama, during the civil rights movement.
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Charles Schwab ( SCHW - news - people ) is fending off dozens of class actions, and an SEC warning about possible civil action, related to alleged misrepresentation of its YieldPlus short-term bond funds.
But the ones like California, which have granted same-sex couples the right to enter into civil unions, adopt children, and partake in other actions normally afforded to married opposite-sex couples, should not be able to deprive same-sex couples the full fruits of the institution of marriage.
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Our success on this front cannot be made through state actions alone but will need to involve cooperation with civil society groups and structures.
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