Excerpt from Private Litigation Under the Federal Securities Laws: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Securities of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session; June 17 and July 21, 1993 These private lawsuits are critical to the overall scheme of law enforcement because, like the sec enforcement actions, they help to deter future violations. When the system is working well, it helps to keep corporate offi cers honest and helps ensure that auditors, directors, lawyers and others do their jobs, and therefore promotes investor confidence and capital formation, the two critical issues I mentioned at the outset of these remarks. But many of our witnesses this morning are going to tell us something else, that securities litigation has gotten out Of hand and is destroying the very capital formation policy it seeks to promote. They say cases are brought without. Any investigation. Complaints are literally run off word processors within days or even hours of a drop in a company's stock and are brought for the purpose of ex tracting settlements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This monograph by the Federal Judicial Center provides an introduction to & overview of the complexities of litigation involving the federal securities laws, with an emphasis on the issues that are most likely to arise in litigation: basic registration, disclosure, & antifraud provisions. Chapters: Introduction: The Federal Securities Laws, the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Sources of Litigation, Self-Regulation, & Private Remedies; Scope & Reach of the Securities Laws; Regulating the Distribution of Securities -- the Securities Act of 1933; Regulating Issuers, Securities Professionals, & the Securities Markets -- The Securities Exchange Act of 1934; Appendix: Statutory Conversion Charts; For Further Reference; & Table of Cases.