Lawsuits

A judge’s decision puts new pressure on the brokerage industry watchdog and the SEC.

The U.S. Treasury Department defeated a blue-state challenge to a rule that exempts buyers of high-interest loans from state interest rate caps.

R. David Yost and his soon-to-be-former son-in-law are slugging it out in court over allegations of tax evasion.

The wirehouse and its attorney “manipulated the arbitrator selection process” and “introduced perjured testimony,” according to the ruling.

A Citigroup employee says she provided U.S. regulators with information that led to the bank's paying a $400 million fine. Now, she wants the judge to award her a share of the penalty.

Tesla countersued JPMorgan Chase over a suit the bank filed last year seeking a $162 million payment related to a series of stock warrant transactions.

Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $60 million to settle a class action suit by consumers claiming the firm failed to safeguard their personal information.

Shares of Medallion Financial plunged Wednesday after U.S. regulators accused the New York-based lender to taxi drivers of seeking to illegally boost its stock price amid intense competition from Uber Technologies and Lyft. 

Capital One Financial agreed to pay $190 million to settle a class action filed against it after a hacker broke into its cloud computing systems and stole their personal information.

The ruling may offer hope for Gwen Campbell, who alleges that JPM’s private bank is “poaching” and “siphoning” her celebrity clients’ assets away from her management and paycheck.