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Second Circuit Revives CDO Wash-Out and Paper Price-Fixing Cases

By Barry Barnett on August 6, 2012

The Second Circuit today came out with rulings in two big commercial cases.

The first involved a "collateralized debt obligation", the second a cartel that the plaintiffs alleged fixed prices for "publication paper". Plaintiffs won both times.

The CDO case stemmed from a $60 million purchase in December 2006 by a German bank, Bayerische…

Posted in Antitrust, Class Actions, Securities

Our Questions About the AIG Bailout (Partial List)

By Barry Barnett on November 24, 2009

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This has nothing to do with AIG.  Or does it? 

The Special Investigator General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program issued an audit report last week.  The paper — "Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties" — goes 47 pages to explain why the Federal Reserve and its good friend the Treasury threw…

Posted in Antitrust

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Barnett is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a partner in Susman Godfrey’s Dallas and New York offices, and a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. With three decades of trial work representing both plaintiffs and defendants, Barnett is a master strategist in complex commercial litigation.

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