The Securities and Exchange Commissioncharged a Bay Area hedge fund manager on Tuesday with siphoning off $12 million of investors' money - a case that casts a harsh spotlight on the controversial accounts known as side pockets.
"C.E.S. wasted a lot of money defending a case totally without merit," Stephen Carr, the chief programmer for C.E.S., declared during an interview I had with him.
Corporate lawyers who defend companies, he added, typically make more money on a case than the lawyers for whistle-blowers do.
Wine lovers who scraped together £300 (£1028 in today's money) for a case in 1982, and have resisted the urge to drink it, are now sitting on a £28,000 nest-egg.
Tapie, a former French football team owner and pop star, was awarded the money in a case against the French public bank Crédit Lyonnais, which he accused of undervaluing his stake in Adidas.
You don't need to be wealthy to own an iPhone but to be able to spend money on a case that costs nearly twice as much as the phone itself means you're living the life of luxury.
Should case report forms become available, any independent research using case report forms is likely to be costly, in terms of both time and money, as a case report form for a single patient can be hundreds of pages in length and require a considerable infrastructure to ensure unbiased judgments.
You should also try to earn some money for a case.
They later announced that the union would continue issuing the payments, saying that its 20-member board would now decide who would get the money on a case-by-case basis.
"It costs a significant amount of money to defend a case that is being aggressively litigated," said Seth Berlin, the paper's lawyer.
Dorothy Brizill, executive director of the watchdog group DCWatch, called the tangle of politics, money and contracting a "case study" of what was wrong with the district's government.
