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Do Brokers Act in Your Best Interest? The Answer May Surprise You.

Apr 12, 2012

Yahoo Finance -As it so happens, there is a precedent on the broker side for a fiduciary standard that has, until recently, not been examined closely. The SEC should welcome the findings in a newly published study by professors at Texas Tech University and Roger Williams University that looks not at cost projections, but at the real world impact today under existing state common-law standards. A common-law fiduciary standard is the body of law, developed over decades by the courts, not regulators or Congress.

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Planned Parenthood files suit

Apr 12, 2012

My SA-Jennifer Bard, a Texas Tech law professor and director of the university's health law program, said the court will have to decide if the state's decision not to provide funding to organizations whose affiliates use separate funds for abortion is the same “as punishing an individual for belonging to a group of which the government does not approve.”

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