In the first court test of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a federal judge has rejected a challenge by fired HealthSouth chief executive Richard Scrushy to the corporate fraud law that was adopted following a series of major accounting scandals. Ruling in what she said was the first decision on the constitutionality of the 2002 law, U.S. District Judge Karon O. Bowdre said jurors -- not a judge -- should decide key questions raised in Scrushy's case.
November 30, 2004 at 12:00 AM
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