bank-secrecy-act

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5185 George Gaio Mano v. Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 9th-amendment bank-secrecy bank-secrecy-act constitutional-privacy data-collection foreign-bank-account-report fourth-amendment privacy privacy-rights Does the US government's mass collection of private banking data violate the 4th, 5th, 9th, and 10th Amendments?
22-335 Richard Collins v. United States Third Circuit 2022-10-11 Denied Response Waived bank-secrecy-act due-process fbar-penalty internal-revenue-service irs proportionality tax-reporting treasury-department willful-failure Whether the Government overreached by imposing any penalty on a taxpayer who owed no additional income tax and voluntarily amended his tax return befo…
22-177 Monica Toth v. United States First Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (5) bank-secrecy-act civil-penalties civil-penalty deterrence deterrent-penalty eighth-amendment excessive-fines-clause fbar foreign-bank-accounts Whether civil penalties imposed under 31 U.S.C. § 5321(a)(5) that are avowedly deterrent and noncompensatory are subject to the Eighth Amendment's Exc…
21-1195 Alexandru Bittner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-02 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) bank-secrecy-act civil-penalty fbar fbar-reporting foreign-accounts penalty-assessment per-account per-form statutory-construction treasury-regulations Whether a 'violation' under the Bank Secrecy Act is the failure to file an annual FBAR (no matter the number of foreign accounts), or whether there is…
21-82 Alpine Securities Corporation v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Amici (2) 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?
20-144 Spencer Savings Bank, SLA, et al. v. Lawrence B. Seidman New Jersey 2020-08-12 Denied bank-secrecy-act civil-liability customer-privacy financial-crimes financial-institution non-disclosure-obligation state-court-liability statutory-scheme suspicious-activity-report Whether a state court's imposition of a good faith requirement for termination of a customer account is repugnant to the statutory scheme embodied in …
19-347 AER Advisors, Inc., et al. v. Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC First Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) annunzio-wylie-anti-money-laundering-act anti-money-laundering bank-secrecy-act choice-of-law civil-immunity criminal-disclosure diversity-jurisdiction federal-transfer financial-institutions forum-selection good-faith-reporting immunity immunity-defense Whether Section 5318 of the Bank Secrecy Act confers absolute immunity or only immunity for good-faith, truthful disclosures about possible criminal v…