After the Ball Is Over: Investor Remedies in the Wake of the Dot-Com Crash and Recent Corporate Scandals

Abstract

I. The Bursting Bubble . . . . . 732 II. A String of Corporate Scandals . . . . . 734 III. Regulating the Conflicted Securities Industry . . . . . 737 IV. The Supreme Court Turns Away from Investor Protection . . . . . 739 V. Some Promise of Investor Relief in the Enron Litigation . . . . . 741 VI. Mixed Results in Market Fraud Litigation . . . . . 745 VII. Customer Claims against Brokers . . . . . 748 VIII. Arbitration as a More Promising Forum . . . . . 751 IX. Claims That May Not Prevail in Arbitration . . . . . 760 X. Conclusion . . . . . 76