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The family of a man who was found dead inside his room from a fentanyl overdose after a robbery by a sex worker at a Strip resort in 2023 has sued the owners of the hotel.

As the federal government reduces criminal prosecution of white-collar crime, states are now courting businesses by competing with one another to further shield corporate executives from legal actions that aim to hold them accountable for wrongdoing.

Alpine Securities is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider taking its years-long case against the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, potentially setting up a showdown that could cripple the brokerage regulator—and other self-regulatory organizations like it.

A broker fighting with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority over being barred is using Supreme Court decisions from the past year in his motion to overturn his case. It’s the latest case questioning FINRA's constitutionality, with attorneys representing the client thinking this case (or one like it) could go before the Court in several years’ time.

The latest development in a heated years-long legal battle between Utah-based brokerage Alpine Securities and its regulator, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), has added more uncertainty over the future of market regulation.

The Securities and Exchange Commission's investment advisory committee met Tuesday to discuss ways of bringing retail investors into private funds, a discussion that may well be heard again once the administration changes over in January.

Finra, the financial industry’s self-regulator, is likely to avoid bringing expedited expulsion proceedings against members without SEC input after the D.C. Circuit said that doing so would probably exceed its authority.

While FINRA decides whether to appeal a circuit court panel’s ruling that it cannot speedily expel reps without SEC oversight, the regulator believes it can “implement measures” to meet the judges’ demands, according to a FINRA spokesperson.