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Perspective

May 10, 2011

State Municipalities, Beware of SEC Administrative Proceedings

The imbalance of power in favor of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in administrative law courts is shockingly constitutional. By Joel T. Shackelford and Joan Stevens Smyth


By Joel T. Shackelford and Joan Stevens Smyth

The municipal securities market, consisting of approximately 51,000 issuers and $2.8 trillion in outstanding securities, has long been one of lax oversight and limited transparency. No longer. With the advent of the verbose Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and revisions to applicable securities law, including Section 15c-2-12 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, the U.S. Securities and Exchan...

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