McDermott Will & Emery put together an excellent peice on insider trading: The SEC v. Mark Cuban Insider Trading Case (.pdf) by Stephen E. Older and Seth T. Goldsamt. Insider trading under U.S. law has developed through a case-by-case interpretation of Section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 in the...
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The Wall Street Journal reported that the SEC filed insider trading charges against Mark Cuban (owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team): SEC Charges Mark Cuban With Insider Trading. You can read the full text of the complaint against Mark Cuban. According to the complaint, Cuban owned 600,000 shares in Mamma.com Inc.  (now called Copernic...
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