securities-exchange-act-of-1934

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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…
23-5153 Felix Lyle Cowan v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure howey-test investment-contract securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-regulation Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Howey test for determining an 'investment contract' under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
20-862 Hui Feng, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response Waived 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
20-5546 Rudolph Carryl v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure fraud fraud-definition sale sale-requirement sec-v-zandford securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-fraud standing statutory-interpretation zandford-precedent Whether violation of §10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 has been extended to encompass acts where the fraud does not coincide with a sale
18-1566 Charles D. Scoville v. Securities and Exchange Commission Tenth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied Amici (1) 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…
18-1471 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 …
18-1129 Cadian Capital Management, LP, et al. v. Terry Klein, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-28 Dismissed article-iii-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rule-civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-standing mootness plaintiff-substitution rule-17-substitution rule-17(a)(3) rule-17a3 securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-1934 securities-exchange-act-of-1934 shareholder-action shareholder-derivative-action standing substitution Whether a shareholder action under § 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 must be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction once the sole plaintiff h…
18-1050 Michael H. Wu, et ux. v. Prudential Financial, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) fraud investment-company investment-company-act-1940 investment-company-act-of-1940 material-misstatement registration-requirement rule-10b-5 sales-literature securities-act-1933 securities-act-of-1933 securities-exchange-act-1934 securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-law securities-registration unit-investment-trust Whether the Variable Separate Account(s) of Pruco Life Insurance Company is registered with the Commission under the 1940 Act as a unit investment tru…
18-7225 Neil Gillespie v. Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc. Florida 2019-01-03 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment administrative-procedure buyer-incompetence civil-rights constitutional-challenge disciplinary-functions due-process federal-regulation foia foreclosure home-equity-conversion-mortgage hud-jurisdiction lawyers-guild mortgage-law nonlawyer-ownership older-americans-act privacy-rights pro-se-litigation securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 standing the-florida-bar trial-by-jury unlicensed-practice-of-medicine void-for-vagueness voting-rights Is the federal HECM reverse mortgage program unconstitutional?