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Lawsuit Challenges Sarbanes-Oxley

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Corporate executives, faced with greater regulatory scrutiny and demands in the wake of corporate scandals like Enron, have for some time moaned that new compliance rules are costing them profits and manpower, as well as combersome and probably not that effective.

Now a new lawsuit's adding another criticism: They're unconstitutional. (CNN [1], Wednesday)

State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. –Ludwig von Mises

FEE Timely Classic
The Awesome Powers of Government [2] by Murray Weidenbaum


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[1] CNN: http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/21/news/companies/compliance_complaints/index.htm

[2] The Awesome Powers of Government: http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=4696

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