personal-benefit

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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 Liability for insider trading arises when someone acts on material nonpublic information. Dirks v. SEC, 463 U.S. 646, 653 (1983). That person may be a…
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 1. Whether information about a proposed government regulation is "property" or a "thing of value" belonging to a federal, state, or local regulator su…
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…