Some early private lawsuits against investment advisers, giant accounting firms and custodial banks are constrained by the tighter limits that Congress imposed on securities fraud cases in the mid-1990s.
A must-pass provision in the Senate version of regulatory reform would allow the S.E.C. to finance itself through fees it already imposes on securities transactions and corporate filings.
The Senate's version of reform would allow the S.E.C. to finance itself through fees it already imposes on securities transactions and corporate filings, rather than having Congress decide its budget each year.
This summer, when Sen. Jack Reed (D-DE), in a hearing covering the steel tariffs imposed on "national security" grounds, asked Lighthizer whether Canada really posed a national security threat, Lighthizer responded, "absolutely". He explained that if a significant supplier such as Canada were exempt from the tariffs, it would undercut their protective effect.
He was confined in a county jail in Albuquerque under solitary conditions like those imposed on maximum security prisoners.
Deutsche Bank was banned from trading shares and derivatives for its own account for six months from April 1, the heaviest penalty imposed on any securities company in Korea.
Frustrated by limits the report says were imposed on them, C.I.A. security officers concluded that senior officials were protecting Mr. Deutch and "washed their hands" of the case.
Many diplomats rankle at the constraints imposed on them by security officials, who demand that they travel around foreign capitals in heavily armored convoys that local civilians find insulting and that make it nearly impossible for the envoys to meet discreetly with foreign officials.
Putting a few bottles into your hand luggage, which used to be the best way, is no longer possible since restrictions on liquids in carry-ons were imposed for security reasons.
Scenes of jubilation inside one of the city's most revered sites had greeted the early morning removal of all additional security measures imposed on the site by Israeli security forces, following days of Palestinian street protests over the devices.
