No. 23-987

Shalini Ahmed v. Securities and Exchange Commission

Lower Court: Second Circuit
Docketed: 2024-03-11
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: asset-seizure civil-rights disgorgement due-process equitable-limitations equitable-limits judicial-review nominee-doctrine pullman-standard-v-swint sec-enforcement sec-v-liu
Key Terms:
DueProcess Securities
Latest Conference: 2024-06-13
Related Cases: 23-741 (Vide)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the value of assets unilaterally seized by the alleged victim should be offset against disgorgement, and whether the value of shares returned during transactions where the alleged victims experienced no loss should be offset against disgorgement

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED As this Court has recognized, disgorgement in SEC proceedings must stay within “traditional equitable limitations” and remain “within the heartland of equity.” Liu v. SEC, 140 S. Ct. 1936, 1943 (2020). This Court has also recognized that “where findings [of the district court] are infirm because of an erroneous view of the law, a remand is the proper course.” Pullman-Standard v. Swint, 456 U.S. 278, 292 (1982). The questions presented are: 1. Whether this Court’s holding in SEC v. Liu, 140 S. Ct. 1936 (2020) that disgorgement must remain within equitable limits instructs that (i) the value of assets unilaterally seized by the alleged victim be offset against disgorgement, and (ii) the value of shares returned during two transactions be offset against disgorgement, especially as the alleged victims experienced no loss in those transactions. 2. Whether this Court’s holdings across multiple cases and other circuit court holdings instruct a vacatur and remand on nominee theory on three discrete relief defendant assets as the district court’s findings were based on an erroneous view of the law and were not legally sufficient to satisfy the requirements of the nominee doctrine such that these three assets can be disgorged as equitably belonging to the defendant and used for the satisfaction of defendant’s judgment.

Docket Entries

2024-06-17
Petition DENIED.
2024-05-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/13/2024.
2024-05-23
2024-05-10
Brief of respondent Securities and Exchange Commission in opposition filed.
2024-04-04
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including May 10, 2024.
2024-04-03
Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 10, 2024 to May 10, 2024, submitted to The Clerk.
2024-03-06
2023-12-28
Application (23A582) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until March 11, 2024.
2023-12-20
Application (23A582) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from January 10, 2024 to March 10, 2024, submitted to Justice Sotomayor.

Attorneys

Securities and Exchange Commission
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent
Shalini Ahmed
Shalini Ahmed — Petitioner
Shalini Ahmed — Petitioner