| 25-895 |
Lee Michael Pederson v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-29 |
Pending |
administrative-review circuit-split due-process judicial-review sec-regulations standard-of-review |
Whether a court may deem a standard of review argument waived despite circuit split, substitute its own determination in an administrative review, int… |
| 25A827 |
John A. Amster, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Application |
administrative-interpretation dodd-frank enforcement-action objective-standard sec-regulations whistleblower-award |
Whether the Securities and Exchange Commission can retroactively reinterpret its own whistleblower regulations to deviate from the originally establis… |
| 25A786 |
Thomas Joseph Powell, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-07 |
Application |
certification corporate-disclosure court-rules legal-standing procedural-filing rule-29.6 |
Question not identified. |
| 25A636 |
Princewell Arinze Duru v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Application |
criminal-enhancement fraud-conspiracy identity-theft lawful-authority statutory-interpretation victim-definition |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1028A permits conviction for consensual use of one's own identifying information when the statute requires use 'without lawful aut… |
| 25A506 |
Walter W. Bullock, et al. v. Rivian Automotive, Inc., et al. |
California |
2025-11-04 |
Application |
corporate-charter federal-court forum-provision initial-public-offering securities-act state-court |
Whether a publicly-traded corporation can unilaterally amend its corporate charter to include a forum-steering provision that requires Securities Act … |
| 25-466 |
Ongkaruck Sripetch v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-16 |
Granted |
circuit-split civil-enforcement disgorgement pecuniary-harm sec-enforcement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the SEC may seek equitable disgorgement under 15 U.S.C. 78u(d)(5) and (d)(7) without showing investors suffered pecuniary harm |
| 25-465 |
Timothy Barton v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-16 |
Pending |
asset-seizure constitutional-limits due-process equitable-relief fifth-circuit securities-law |
Does 15 U.S.C. § 78u(d)(5) and its authorization for the Commission to seek 'equitable relief' allow the Commission and a district court to order seiz… |
| 25A265 |
Timothy Barton v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-05 |
Presumed Complete |
asset-seizure due-process equitable-relief preliminary-injunction receivership securities-law |
Whether the Securities and Exchange Commission can obtain a prejudgment receivership seizing entire companies without demonstrating clear necessity an… |
| 24-1233 |
John M. Barr, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-04 |
Denied |
administrative-law agency-discretion due-process regulatory-standard retroactive-application whistleblower-award |
Whether an agency can deny a whistleblower award by applying a new regulatory standard retroactively, after the whistleblower's claim has fully mature… |
| 24-6975 |
Samuel T. Whatley, II v. T-Mobile USA, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-04-11 |
Dismissed |
federal-judges governmental-immunity misconduct privacy-rights property-rights stock-equities |
Are private entities invested with stock equities of assigned federal judges exceeding $10,000 subject to federal law prosecutions, review, lawsuits, … |
| 24-949 |
Navellier & Associates, Inc., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
First Circuit |
2025-03-05 |
Denied |
anti-fraud-provisions disgorgement investor-protection materiality-standard sec-enforcement securities-law |
Whether the SEC can seek disgorgement for investor clients who suffered no pecuniary harm under securities law anti-fraud provisions |
| 24A727 |
John M. Barr, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-24 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-procedure agency-delay retroactive-guidance sec-interpretation statutory-guidance whistleblower-award |
Whether a government agency can intentionally delay issuing a legally required decision to circumvent past agency representations and precedents |
| 24A622 |
Navellier & Associates, Inc., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
First Circuit |
2024-12-23 |
Presumed Complete |
circuit-split disgorgement equitable-remedy investor-protection sec-enforcement securities-law |
Whether a federal court has authority to award disgorgement under securities law when the alleged victims suffered no pecuniary harm |
| 24-5712 |
John Doe v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
District of Columbia |
2024-10-07 |
Denied |
administrative-procedures-act dodd-frank-act due-process enforcement-action judicial-review sec-whistleblower |
Whether the SEC's denial of a whistleblower award violates the Dodd-Frank Act, Administrative Procedures Act, and due process clause in light of recen… |
| 24M21 |
John Doe v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
District of Columbia |
2024-08-23 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24-52 |
Gunes Biray v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
District of Columbia |
2024-07-17 |
Denied |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-discretion appellate-review arbitrary-and-capricious due-process sec-enforcement securities-law securities-regulation whistleblower-protection |
Does the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) possess absolute immunity from appellate scrutiny when it arbitrarily or capriciously … |
| 23A899 |
Manoranjan Rao v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-04-09 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-procedure disclosure-requirements due-process enforcement-action sec-investigation whistleblower-award |
Whether the SEC's denial of a whistleblower award based on claimed non-reliance on the whistleblower's tip violates due process when the agency refuse… |
| 23-987 |
Shalini Ahmed v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
asset-seizure civil-rights disgorgement due-process equitable-limitations equitable-limits judicial-review nominee-doctrine pullman-standard-v-swint sec-enforcement sec-v-liu |
Whether the value of assets unilaterally seized by the alleged victim should be offset against disgorgement, and whether the value of shares returned … |
| 23-6835 |
R. Allen Stanford v. Ralph S. Janvey, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
civil-enforcement district-court-jurisdiction equity-receiver equity-receivership federal-civil-procedure federal-venue general-jurisdiction securities-enforcement securities-regulation ultra-vires venue-laws |
Whether the SEC properly construed and applied federal venue laws |
| 23-741 |
Iftikar A. Ahmed v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-09 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure cross-appeal-rule greenlaw-v-united-states judicial-discretion jurisdiction remand remedy-limitation substantive-law |
Whether the cross-appeal rule is jurisdictional or mandatory, or admits of exceptions |
| 23A582 |
Shalini Ahmed v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23-626 |
Elon Musk v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-action sec-enforcement settlement settlement-agreement standing unconstitutional-conditions |
Whether a party's acceptance of a benefit prevents that party from contending that the government violated the unconstitutional conditions doctrine in… |
| 23A342 |
Elon Musk v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23-240 |
David L. Smith v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2023-09-13 |
Denied |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-relief disgorgement due-process judicial-review rule-60b4 sec-enforcement standing takings void-judgment |
Is Petitioner entitled to collateral relief from an extra-legal 'disgorgement' order, which the SEC had no power to obtain, and the district court had… |
| 23-98 |
Gregory Lemelson, aka Father Emmanuel Lemelson, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
First Circuit |
2023-08-02 |
Denied |
first-amendment fraud free-speech market-speech material-misstatement rule-10b-5 sec-rule-10b-5 securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-law securities-regulation |
Whether the First Amendment protects a securities market participant from being punished and enjoined by the government for intentionally or recklessl… |
| 23A96 |
Henry Klein v. Louisiana Office of Disciplinary Counsel |
Louisiana |
2023-08-01 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-adjudication appointments-clause due-process lawyer-discipline non-article-iii-officers separation-of-functions |
Whether a state agency that combines prosecutorial and adjudicatory functions within a single entity, without meaningful separation of those functions… |
| 22-1241 |
Jocelyn M. Murphy, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-27 |
Denied |
broker-registration due-process eighth-amendment fair-notice securities-exchange-act-1934 securities-law securities-laws securities-violations seventh-amendment statutory-penalty statutory-penalty-caps |
Whether the courts below exceeded the statutory penalty caps established by Congress 'for each violation' of the securities laws, depriving Petitioner… |
| 22A1006 |
Gregory Lemelson, aka Father Emmanuel Lemelson, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
First Circuit |
2023-05-19 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-1103 |
Edward Bronson v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
appellate-review circuit-court-order civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-sanctions due-process injunctive-relief penalties punitive-sanctions standing statutory-penalties supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Summary Order of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit conflicts with decisions of this Court |
| 22-1073 |
Team Resources Incorporated, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
civil-penalty disgorgement due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing federal-court securities-and-exchange-commission securities-law |
Whether a federal court may grant a disgorgement request from the Securities and Exchange Commission without granting a defendant's request for a live… |
| 22-991 |
George R. Jarkesy, Jr., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
administrative-law agency-adjudication circuit-court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-review jurisdiction securities-law securities-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Whether circuit courts have jurisdiction to remand to the SEC under 15 U.S.C. § 78y |
| 22-963 |
John Doe v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
administrative-action criminal-conduct criminal-violation dodd-frank enforcement-action judicial-action pleaded-guilty sec-interpretation sentencing whistleblower whistleblower-award |
Does Dodd-Frank's whistleblower award program exclude whistleblowers whose criminal conduct is only tangentially connected to the enforcement action (… |
| 22-950 |
Dorothy A. Smulley v. Safeco Insurance Company of Illinois, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
commerce-clause digital-transactions due-process insurance-valuation interstate-commerce mccarran-ferguson-act public-interest securities-exchange-commission software-as-a-service standing |
Whether personal motor vehicle physical damage (MVPD) insurance valuations performed by a third party Software as a Service (SaaS) company over the In… |
| 22-859 |
Securities and Exchange Commission v. George R. Jarkesy, Jr., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-09 |
Judgment Issued |
administrative-enforcement administrative-law article-ii civil-penalties civil-rights due-process enforcement nondelegation-doctrine sec-proceedings securities seventh-amendment |
Whether statutory provisions that empower the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to initiate and adjudicate administrative enforcement proceedin… |
| 22-751 |
Charles C. Liu, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split disgorgement equity-practice joint-and-several-liability mandate-rule net-profits procedural-requirement profits-based-remedy third-party-funds |
Whether the decision of the Ninth Circuit requiring petitioners to disgorge funds they raised and disbursed to unrelated third parties, but never pers… |
| 22-687 |
Randall S. Goulding v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
burden-shifting disgorgement legitimate-business liu-v-sec net-profits non-fraudulent-activities sec sec-enforcement treasury-distribution |
Whether a district court's award of disgorgement to the SEC based on the defendant's cash withdrawals from a business without considering whether the … |
| 22-646 |
Sergey Pustelnik, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
artificiality fraud intent legal-standard market-manipulation scienter securities-exchange-act securities-fraud securities-regulation |
Whether scienter alone may satisfy the traditionally separate artificiality requirement to establish market manipulation? |
| 22A596 |
Securities and Exchange Commission v. George R. Jarkesy, Jr., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-05 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22A461 |
Randall S. Goulding v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-11-28 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-368 |
Victor Hong v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-10-19 |
Denied |
dodd-frank dodd-frank-act enforcement-action exchange-act monetary-sanctions sec securities-exchange-act securities-law securities-law-violation whistleblower whistleblower-incentive |
What is an 'action' within the Exchange Act's securities whistleblower incentive program, 15 U.S.C. §78u-6(a)(1)? |
| 22-332 |
Terraform Labs Pte Ltd., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2022-10-11 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure corporate-tag corporate-tag-jurisdiction due-process personal-jurisdiction sec-rules service-of-process |
Did the SEC properly exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign company? |
| 22A183 |
Terraform Labs Pte Ltd., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2022-08-25 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-5098 |
Arthur Torlucci v. California |
California |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
administrative-law agency-adjudication appointments-clause civil-rights due-process judicial-review legal-standard lower-court-ruling protected-activity securities-regulation separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution requires that administrative law judges of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission be app… |
| 21-7467 |
Patrick Muraca v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
First Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
access-to-courts attorney-representation civil-rights court-deadlines due-process incarcerated-rights incarceration legal-access procedural-rules right-to-counsel speedy-trial |
Does an incarcerated individual have the timely and speedy right to an attorney before important court decisions are made, such as missing a deadline … |
| 21-1284 |
Barry D. Romeril v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment prior-restraint sec-settlement viewpoint-based-restriction void-judgment |
Does the SEC's requirement of a lifetime gag order in settlements violate the First Amendment? |
| 21-1239 |
Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. v. Michelle Cochran |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Judgment Issued |
administrative-law administrative-law-judge civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction removal-provisions sec-administrative-proceeding securities-regulation separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction to hear a suit in which the respondent in an ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission administrati… |
| 21-7210 |
James Thomas Webb v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
double-jeopardy due-process fair-play federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction settlement-agreement sovereign-immunity takings |
Did the relitigation of the CLOSED Florida 2 Federal District Court case United States Securities and Exchange Commission v. James Thomas Webb (Case S… |
| 21-681 |
Andy Altahawi v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
capital-gains-tax civil-procedure consent-judgment restitution rule-60 rule-60(b) sec second-circuit tax-implications |
Whether the Second Circuit erred when it upheld the district court's denial of Altahawi's motion pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(5) and (6) to make … |
| 21-642 |
Jehu Hand v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
criminal-liability disclosure-requirements hype regulatory-interpretation resale-of-shares rule-10b-5 securities-exchange-act securities-law stock-fraud stock-price-crash total-mix-of-information |
Can criminal liability under Securities Exchange Act Rule 10b-5 lie when the 'total mix' of information includes a warning that the public disclosure … |
| 21-594 |
Alphabet Inc., et al. v. Rhode Island, Office of the Rhode Island Treasurer on Behalf of the Employees' Retirement System of Rhode Island |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-25 |
Denied |
annual-filing circuit-split disclosure-requirements forward-looking past-information quarterly-report risk-factors sec-regulations securities-disclosure securities-regulation |
Whether 'risk factors' disclosed in securities filings must disclose only future risks or must also disclose past risks |
| 21-591 |
Donald J. Fowler v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
civil-penalties civil-penalty civil-procedure constitutional-limits disgorgement excessive-penalties private-agreement sec-enforcement statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Where 28 U.S.C. § 2462 permits tolling of 5-year statute of limitations by private agreement |
| 21-82 |
Alpine Securities Corporation v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
administrative-law agency-authority bank-secrecy-act enforcement-authority mens-rea sec-enforcement securities-and-exchange-commission securities-exchange-act statutory-interpretation treasury-department |
Does the SEC have independent authority to interpret and enforce the Bank Secrecy Act? |
| 20-1727 |
James David O'Brien v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
circuit-court-ruling civil-procedure federal-agency immunity legal-interpretation proffer-agreement subpoena testimony testimony-protection |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit err in deciding that a proponent of testimony pursuant to a proffer agreement is not lat… |
| 20-1652 |
Meghan Belaski, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
District of Columbia |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
confidential-information double-jeopardy fifth-amendment intellectual-property related-action securities-exchange-commission securities-law takings-clause whistleblower whistleblower-award |
Do the statutory rules of the SEC violate the Double Jeopardy Clause and Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment? |
| 20-1364 |
BofI Holding, Inc., et al. v. Houston Municipal Employees Pension System |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-30 |
Denied |
basic-inc-v-levinson disclosure-standards dura-pharmaceuticals efficient-capital-markets-hypothesis efficient-market-hypothesis fraud-on-the-market investor-protection loss-causation market-price securities-exchange-act securities-fraud |
Whether disputed public allegations about an issuer or its business, without any additional corroborating disclosure or event, reveal to an efficient … |
| 20-862 |
Hui Feng, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
antifraud-provisions broker-registration capital-raising investment-advisers-act-of-1940 sec-authority secondary-market secondary-market-transactions securities-act securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 statutory-interpretation |
Whether the SEC exceeded its statutory authority |
| 20A48 |
John Masiz v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
First Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 20-5669 |
Christopher Paul George v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-procedure criminal-restitution equity-practice fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-verdict seventh-amendment sixth-amendment |
Whether Apprendi applies to a mandatory criminal restitution order, and whether the Seventh Amendment requires a restitution order to comply with trad… |
| 20-276 |
Christopher M. Gibson v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
administrative-law administrative-law-judges appointments-clause constitutional-challenge dodd-frank free-enterprise-fund jurisdictional-review lucia-v-sec sec-enforcement securities-and-exchange-commission separation-of-powers |
Whether Congress has implicitly stripped federal district courts of jurisdiction to adjudicate separation-of-powers challenges to the authority of SEC… |
| 20-81 |
Diana Berber v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-28 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process employment en-banc-petition judicial-administration judicial-review rehearing-denial rehearing-en-banc supervisory-jurisdiction wells-fargo |
Did the Eleventh Circuit, by denying Ms. Berber's petitions for rehearing en banc, so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial admini… |
| 19-1310 |
Craig R. Jalbert, in His Capacity as Trustee of the F2 Liquidating Trust v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
First Circuit |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
administrative-law agency-authority civil-rights disgorgement due-process judicial-review legislative-power penalty-enforcement securities separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties |
Whether a federal government agency commits a structural separation-of-powers violation by exercising a legislative function when, in addition to expl… |
| 19-7714 |
Angelique de Maison v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-20 |
GVR |
disgorgement enforcement-action equitable-relief liu-v-sec penalty securities-law standing supreme-court |
Whether the Securities and Exchange Commission may seek and obtain disgorgement from a court as 'equitable relief' for a securities law violation even… |
| 19-997 |
Gary S. Williky v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
appellate-review circuit-court civil-penalties discretion guilty-plea guilty-pleas guilty-verdicts judicial-discretion seventh-circuit whistleblower |
Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining that the Trial Court did not abuse its discretion by awarding 2x civil penalties against W… |
| 19-978 |
Team Resources Incorporated, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
GVR |
disgorgement equitable-remedy federal-court penalty penalty-analysis sec sec-enforcement securities-law securities-violations |
Whether the Securities and Exchange Commission may obtain disgorgement from a federal court as an equitable remedy for securities violations despite t… |
| 19-919 |
Joseph Becker, et al. v. Ralph S. Janvey, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
anti-injunction-act equitable-receivership in-aid-of-jurisdiction in-rem-claims ponzi-scheme securities-claim securities-litigation settlement-bar-order state-court-litigation state-court-proceedings |
Whether the Anti-Injunction Act allows for the issuance of a bar order by the SEC-appointed equitable receiver that permanently stays a pending state … |
| 19-909 |
Dennis J. Malouf v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
administrative-exhaustion appointments-clause claim-processing-rule equitable-exceptions investment-advisers-act jurisdictional-condition securities-exchange-act securities-law |
What constitutes 'reasonable grounds' to excuse failure to raise Appointments Clause objection before SEC? |
| 19-878 |
Guy Gentile v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
administrative-enforcement administrative-law circuit-split civil-penalties civil-procedure injunctions injunctive-relief penalty-bar securities-law statute-of-limitations |
Does the five-year statute of limitations in 28 U.S.C. § 2462 apply to 'obey the law' injunctions and penny stock industry bars pursuant to 15 U.S.C. … |
| 19-6607 |
Robert Allen Stanford v. Jay Clayton |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
civil-rights discretionary-function due-process extraterritorial extraterritorial-jurisdiction fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sec-enforcement securities sovereign-immunity |
Whether the SEC's civil enforcement action against Stanford International Bank, Ltd. in Antigua violated the claimant's due-process rights |
| 19-6571 |
Francisco Illarramendi v. John J. Carney, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
28-usc-2462 civil-actions civil-procedure civil-procedure-statute-of-limitations-sec-28-usc- collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process pdvsa-venezuela sec sec-enforcement sec-receiver-parallel-criminal-proceedings statute-of-limitations summary-judgment summary-judgment-collateral-estoppel summary-judgment-standard-tolan-v-cotton supreme-court-doctrine |
Do lower courts have an inherent duty to properly apply doctrine of this Supreme Court that confirms the applicability of the Statute of Limitations -… |
| 19-392 |
Martin A. Armstrong v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
asset-forfeiture asset-freezing civil-enforcement constitutional-right-to-counsel counsel-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process parallel-civil-enforcement parallel-proceedings personal-property property-rights right-to-counsel |
Whether the constitutional right to counsel of choice extends to cases where a criminal defendant's assets are frozen as part of a parallel civil enfo… |
| 19-343 |
New York Republican State Committee v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
administrative-law first-amendment free-association free-speech investment-advisers political-contributions sec sec-rule-2030 |
Whether Rule 2030 of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, which imposes a two-year ban on political contributions by investment advis… |
| 19-97 |
Mitchell Jay Stein v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel jury-trial offensive-collateral-estoppel securities-fraud seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
Whether offensive collateral estoppel may be used to enter summary judgment on an alternative theory that was never presented to the trier of fact in … |
| 19-5113 |
Sameer P. Sethi v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-liability due-process fraud investor-protection sec-regulation securities securities-law standing summary-judgment |
Did the lower courts err in granting summary judgment against the defendant on securities fraud claims? |
| 19A8 |
Martin A. Armstrong v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-28 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-1566 |
Charles D. Scoville v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
civil-procedure criminal-prosecution dodd-frank-act due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-reach extraterritoriality federal-jurisdiction sec-enforcement securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-law securities-regulation statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether Section 929P(b)'s jurisdictional amendments conferred substantive extraterritorial reach upon Sections 10(b) and 17(a) in SEC enforcement acti… |
| 18-1501 |
Charles C. Liu, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Judgment Issued |
agency-enforcement disgorgement equitable-relief judicial-review kokesh-v-sec lower-court-precedent penalty sec-enforcement securities-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the SEC may seek and obtain disgorgement from a court as equitable relief' for a securities law violation even though this Court has determine… |
| 18-1471 |
Christopher Hall v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
anti-fraud appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judgment-as-a-matter-of-law judgment-as-matter-of-law rule-50 securities securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-fraud standing |
Whether an appellate court has authority to consider challenges to issues of law raised in a pre-verdict Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 50(a) motion … |
| 18A1180 |
Mitchell Jay Stein v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-15 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-9224 |
Francisco Illarramendi v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
28-usc-2462 civil-actions civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights habeas-corpus sec securities-enforcement statute-of-limitations summary-judgment supreme-court-doctrine |
Do lower courts have an inherent duty to properly apply doctrine of this Supreme Court that confirms the applicability of the Statute of Limitations -… |
| 18A1057 |
Charles D. Scoville v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-8752 |
Kulwant Singh Sandhu v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
administrative-law circuit-split criminal-law criminal-speech first-amendment free-speech harassment public-policy statutory-interpretation telecommunications telephone-harassment |
Does 47 U.S.C. subsection 223(a)(1)(D) prohibit only the harassment caused by repeatedly ringing a telephone or does it also prohibit repeated verbal … |
| 18A988 |
Christopher Hall v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18A958 |
Charles C. Liu, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-1117 |
Kabani & Company, Inc., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
administrative-framework administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process hearing-officer judicial-review lucia-v-sec procedural-validity ryder-v-united-states separation-of-powers structural-constitutional-objections timely-challenge |
Whether petitioners who timely challenge the constitutional validity of the administrative framework, including the appointment of the officer adjudic… |
| 18-1010 |
Joseph P. Hagan, et al. v. Karim Khoja |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
circuit-split corporate-disclosure corporate-issuer disclosure duty-to-update historical-fact material-misstatement materiality reliance rule-10b-5 sec-rule-10b-5 securities-law |
Whether the Court should resolve the current circuit split regarding a corporate issuer's duty to update under Securities and Exchange Commission Rule… |
| 18A482 |
Kabani & Company, Inc., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-131 |
Troy Lyndon v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
agency-action agency-authority agency-enforcement civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence judicial-discretion settlement-agreement |
Did the District Court err in allowing an agency of the United States to contest and withhold exculpatory evidence when prosecuting a civil enforcemen… |
| 18-5136 |
Francisco Illarramendi v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-proceeding constitutional-liberty constitutional-property constitutional-property-rights constitutional-rights district-court inextricably-intertwined liberty-interests parallel-criminal-proceeding property-rights |
Can Article III standing be denied to a defendant in a civil proceeding who objects to district court rulings that directly affect the defendant's con… |
| 23A55 |
Securities and Exchange Commission v. George R. Jarkesy, Jr., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
|
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |