Insider Trading, Preliminary Injunctions

Second Federal Judge Enjoins “Likely Unconstitutional” SEC Admin Actions

Burr & Forman on 8/14/2015

Manhattan federal Judge Richard Berman yesterday (August 12) issued a preliminary injunction halting the SEC’s administrative action against former S&P executive Barbara Duka, holding the SEC’s in-house courts were “likely...more

SEC Has No Plans to Change the Way Administrative Judges Are Appointed (For Now)

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog on 6/16/2015

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, entered a preliminary injunction preventing the SEC from conducting an administrative proceeding in an insider trading matter. In the...more

SEC to Appeal Preliminary Injunction Blocking Administrative Proceeding

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog on 6/16/2015

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, entered a preliminary injunction preventing the SEC from conducting an administrative proceeding in an insider trading matter. The...more

Federal Court Rules That SEC Administrative Proceeding Is “Likely Unconstitutional”

Mintz - Securities & Capital Markets... on 6/12/2015

As we discussed in a post last November, the SEC’s increasing use of enforcement proceedings before its own administrative law judges (ALJs), rather than before federal court judges, has spawned a number of constitutional...more

SEC Insider Trading Case Brought As Administrative Proceeding Enjoined

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 6/10/2015

The SEC’s shift to administrative proceedings in recent months has spawned a series of suits against the agency challenging its forum selection authority. The suits have generally met with little success. Nevertheless,...more

Court Enters Preliminary Injunction Against SEC Administrative Proceeding

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog on 6/9/2015

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, has entered a preliminary injunction preventing the SEC from conducting an administrative proceeding in an insider trading matter. The...more

Two Former Capital One Employees Who Traded On Customer Data, Consent to Preliminary Injunction

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 3/16/2015

Insider trading cases are built on two basic theories. Under the traditional, classic model, a corporate insider uses material, non-public information obtained from his or her employer to trade in shares of the company –...more

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