Will the inflammatory allegations spur big investors who bought ill-fated CDOs to take action against Goldman and others?

Petitioner appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, New York County (Karla Moskowitz, J.), entered on or about March 24, 2003, which, inter alia, granted the cross motion of respondent Elly Kour

Within days of announcing big settlements with JPMorgan and Credit Suisse, the SEC was forced to abandon its case against Edward Steffelin, and then lost a bid to salvage part of its case against ex-Goldman Sachs bond trader Fabrice Tourre over the notorious ABACUS CDO.

Aluminum giant Alcoa has had enough of waiting to defend itself against sensational bribery claims by a Bahraini rival while the DOJ and SEC build their own cases against the company. On Thursday Cravath's Evan Chesler travelled to Pittsburgh to make Alcoa's case for lifting a three-year-old stay in the civil suit so that it can seek dismissal, but federal prosecutors countered that allowing the case to proceed could threaten the government's investigation.