Trading on trial outcomes; industry analysts monitor big cases to keep tabs on stock probabilities

Article Abstract:

Some financial analysts monitor trial and appellate court reports affecting companies they study hunting for inside information on what a company will do. These analysts ask how much of the courtroom risk is already built into the company's stock price, and trials critical to a company's stock price are always of particular interest. The business sector where litigation has mattered most has, thus far, been the tobacco industry.

Research, Financial analysts

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Go West, young publishers; court frees up case notations for use by competing cut-rate researchers

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The US Court of Appeals for the 2d Circuit has opened the way for discount legal research companies by allowing them to copy some of West's case reporter notations and use West's page numbers in their own reports. Matthew Bender & Co. v. West Publishing Co. states that West rivals may use "star pagination" to show the place in their own case reporters where the corresponding West pages begin and end.

Management, Legal research, Legal citations, Annotations and citations (Law)

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Acid test; DNA databases help nail slippery criminals, but their potential uses make privacy advocates nervous when it comes to arrestees and ordinary citizens

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The article discusses judges' and law enforcement's differences over whether defendants should be required to give DNA evidence, and describes and describes growing government access to those DNA files already in existence. The activation of the FBI's National DNA Index System and the work of the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence are mentioned.

Usage, Innovations, DNA testing, DNA identification, Evidence, Criminal, Criminal evidence

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