The report from the Center for Digital Democracy, an advocacy group in Washington, on marketing materials and filings of companies designing interactive television systems found that, like Web site operators, many of them hope to profit by collecting and selling data on customers' viewing habits.
But you can forget about anything material like actual filings, considering that the Web sites themselves have barely materialized.
This material includes patent filings, petitions, mechanical drawings and diagrams, correspondence, and notes.
"Cunningham uses chance much as he might use a magnet, to draw possibilities to him from beyond his reach, and to arrange his materials, like iron filings, into relationships he might not otherwise have seen," James Klosty, an early chronicler of the Cunningham company, wrote in his 1975 book, "Merce Cunningham".
In the Southern District of New York, Judge Cote examined the potential for abuse in a suit alleging that Time, Inc. had omitted certain material information in its filings related to a tender offer by Meredith Corporation.
To qualify for the following list, the 100 companies also had to have market values of $200 million or more, and AGR ratings of Conservative or Average over each of the last four quarters, and no amended filings or material restatements over the last year.
John Coffee, a law professor at Columbia University, disagrees: "If your operations are heavily dependent on an individual or business as a leading recruiter, you need to disclose that material fact in financial filings, especially if there have been repeated commercial fraud sanctions".
Rep. Lieu pointed out that companies are prohibited from omitting or lying about material facts in their filings.
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board SASBB) standards, available for 79 industries, are designed to help companies disclose material information in SEC filings in a manner that's decision-useful to investors.
Giuliani said he did not know what investigations were covered by all the redacted material in Tuesday's filings but said he doubted they had anything to do with Trump.
