insider-trading
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-576 | Stephen Buyer v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | constitutional-limitations criminal-prosecution insider-trading prosecutorial-discretion stock-exchange venue | The question presented is whether a stock trading on an exchange whose physical headquarters is located in Manhattan suffices to establish venue in th… |
| 25A205 | Stephen Buyer v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-limitation electronic-trading insider-trading sixth-amendment stock-exchange venue | Whether the Sixth Amendment's venue provision requires venue for insider trading prosecutions to be determined by the location of the actual electroni… | |
| 22-330 | Eric Weller v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-10-07 | Denied | Response Waived | conspiracy fiduciary-duty insider-trading knowledge material-nonpublic-information personal-benefit remote-tippee tippee tippee-liability | Whether a remote tippee's mere knowledge that a friendship exists between the insider and first tippee is sufficient to establish the remote tippee's … |
| 21-6928 | Dennis Lee Maxberry v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process honorable-discharge insider-trading military-discharge prejudice statutes-of-limitation veterans-affairs veterans-rights | Isn't a questionable claim by the defendant's that the Discharged Peace-time Veteran who had been discharged to a soft landing usually is when the Sta… |
| 21-580 | Vitaly Korchevsky v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-10-20 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process evidence grand-jury grand-jury-clause insider-trading material-nonpublic-information securities-exchange-act securities-fraud stock-trading | Whether the evidence at trial so dramatically changed the type, number, and scope of the specifically alleged trades that the defendant was denied his… |
| 20-1161 | Edward J. Kosinski v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review confidentiality-agreement constitutional-vagueness criminal-fraud fiduciary-duty harmless-error insider-trading trust-and-confidence vagueness | Whether a simple agreement to keep information confidential can establish criminal insider-trading-fraud |
| 20-866 | Francesca Allen, et al. v. Wells Fargo & Company, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-12-30 | Denied | Relisted (4) | duty-of-loyalty duty-of-prudence employee-stock-ownership-plan erisa fiduciary-duty fifth-third-v-dudenhoeffer insider-trading prudence-standard securities-law securities-laws stock-ownership | Whether ESOP fiduciaries are effectively immune from duty-of-prudence liability for failure to publicly disclose inside information |
| 20-5649 | David Blaszczak v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-09-10 | GVR | Amici (1)IFP | conversion criminal-liability dirks-v-sec fraud fraud-statute government-property insider-trading regulatory-information statutory-interpretation title-15 title-18 | Whether government regulatory information is property or a thing of value |
| 20-306 | Robert Olan and Theodore Huber v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-09-09 | GVR | Amici (2) | conversion criminal-procedure dirks-v-sec fraud fraud-statute government-regulation insider-trading personal-benefit property-rights securities-law | Whether information about a proposed government regulation is 'property' or a 'thing of value' belonging to a federal, state, or local regulator such … |
| 19-7259 | John Afriyie v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-forfeiture due-process insider-trading jury-trial libretti-v-united-states sixth-amendment | Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming a criminal forfeiture judgment encompassing all potential trades despite a general jury verdict and th… |
| 18-972 | Mathew Martoma v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-01-28 | Denied | Amici (2) | corporate-disclosure dirks-v-sec fiduciary-duty insider-trading personal-benefit securities-law securities-regulation tippee tippee-liability tipper | Whether the government must demonstrate that the tipper received a personal benefit in exchange for providing insider information, as required by Dirk… |
| 18-7222 | Winifred Jiau v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus insider-trading jury-instruction jury-instructions statutory-interpretation | Whether a prisoner must prove that some jurists would grant habeas corpus |