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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

An inside view of HIPAA enforcement

While many healthcare providers are generally aware of their obligations under HIPAA, most do not have a clear sense of what happens if they fail to meet these obligations. At best, most probably are familiar with headlines...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top 5 SEC Developments (November 2023)

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Each month, we publish a roundup of the most important SEC enforcement developments for busy in-house lawyers and compliance professionals. This month, we examine: • The SEC’s announcement of its Fiscal Year 2023 enforcement...more

Venable LLP

SEC v. Govil: Circuit Split Creates Uncertainty - and Opportunity - for Defendants in Enforcement Actions

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In SEC v. Govil, No. 22-1658, 2023 WL 7137291 (2d Cir. Oct. 31, 2023), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit made clear that, in the Second Circuit, the disgorgement remedy available to the SEC pursuant to...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Three years after Liu v, SEC, disgorgement is still a potent remedy for the SEC

When the Supreme Court in 2020 issued its decision in Liu v. SEC, placing limits upon the Securities and Exchange Commission's ability to obtain disgorgement, many observers believed that the decision would significantly...more

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NLRB Opens Door to Additional Remedies for Repeated Labor Violations

On April 20, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) imposed a host of expanded remedies against an employer that allegedly committed a number of repeated labor law violations in the context of collective bargaining....more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Anti-Retaliation under the False Claims Act

The False Claims Act encourages whistleblowers to come forward when they suspect their employer is committing fraud. This post provides a general overview of the False Claims Act’s anti-retaliation provision, which protects...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

NLRB General Counsel Signals Stronger Enforcement Actions Against Employers, Part Two: ‘Seeking Full Remedies’

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Last month, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued not one, but two memoranda directing Regional Offices to pursue a vastly expanded array of “remedies” against employers in unfair labor...more

Kilpatrick

KT Sound Bytes Episode 1 | The Effects of the Supreme Court Decision in Liu v. SEC

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We're pleased to announce the launch of our podcast, KT Sound Bytes! Our first episode features Partner Adria Perez and Associate Jessica Nwokocha, with assistance from Summer Associate Davis Brooke Caswell, discussing the...more

WilmerHale

Regulatory Monitor: SEC Update

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Liu v. SEC: The US Supreme Court Upholds the SEC’s Power to Obtain Disgorgement in Civil Actions, but with Important Limitations - On June 22, the Supreme Court held in Liu v. SEC that the Securities and Exchange...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Liu v. SEC Decision Leaves Ambiguity on Disgorgement Limitations – How to Measure 'Business Expenses' Deductible From 'Illegal...

While the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Liu v. SEC limited the SEC’s disgorgement power, it also left open certain complicated issues that are now subject to interpretation. As we previously summarized, in an 8–1 vote, the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Ninth Circuit Reverses SEC Disgorgement Award and Remands in First Decision Post-Liu

For the first time outside of the originating case itself, a federal appeals court was called upon to apply the principles governing disgorgement in SEC enforcement actions established by the United States Supreme Court’s...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

A Liu Look at Disgorgement: Ninth Circuit Vacates SEC Disgorgement Award

The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Liu v. SEC is less than two months old, yet the ramifications of the decision on the SEC’s enforcement powers are already taking shape....more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Strange Bedfellows – How a Recent Security Fraud Opinion May Impact Consumer Fraud Class Actions

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Liu v. SEC, No. 18-1501 (June 22, 2020), limiting the SEC’s ability to obtain monetary equitable relief in securities fraud litigation, may seem an odd topic for this blog. But Liu...more

Pillsbury - Policyholder Pulse blog

Disgorgement/Restitution Defense Continues to Lose Steam in Wake of Supreme Court Decision in Liu v. SEC

Late in June, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Liu v. SEC, a closely watched case in which the Court in an 8-1 opinion curtailed the authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to seek disgorgement of...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Limits To ERISA’s Equitable Remedies — What The Supreme Court’s Latest Securities Act Decision Tells Us

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Seyfarth Synopsis: A recent Supreme Court decision on federal securities law may hold ramifications for ERISA practitioners by addressing whether disgorgement is an equitable remedy....more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Liu v. SEC: Foreshadowing a Challenge to the FTC’s Disgorgement Authority

In Liu v. Securities & Exchange Commission, the Supreme Court upheld, but circumscribed, the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) disgorgement authority by holding 8-1 that the SEC may seek disgorgement through its...more

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Are Disgorgement Payments to the SEC Tax-Deductible? U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision in Liu v. SEC Complicates the Analysis

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month in Liu v. SEC raises the question of whether disgorgement payments in SEC enforcement actions should now be deductible for federal income tax purposes. The Court held that a...more

King & Spalding

What is New After Liu: Unsettled Questions Surrounding SEC Disgorgement

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On June 22, 2020, in Liu v. SEC, the Supreme Court held in an 8-1 decision that the SEC is authorized under 15 U.S.C. § 78u(d)(5) (2015) to seek disgorgement as “equitable relief” in district court actions, as long as the...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Liu v. SEC—Supreme Court Limits SEC’s Ability To Seek Disgorgement

In Liu v. Securities & Exchange Comm’n, No. 18-1501, 2020 WL 3405845 (U.S. Jun. 22, 2020), the United States Supreme Court upheld the ability of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to seek disgorgement as an...more

Kilpatrick

Liu v. SEC: The U.S. Supreme Court Upholds SEC’s Power to Disgorge Profits Obtained Through Fraud, with Limits

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On June 22, 2020, in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement action, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the SEC may disgorge profits obtained by companies through fraudulent practice, provided that such award...more

The Volkov Law Group

Supreme Court Restricts Disgorgement Remedy

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In an important case decided in June 2020, the Supreme Court, in Liu et al v. SEC, addressed the SEC’s ability to seek “equitable relief” in civil proceedings. In 2017, the Supreme Court, in Kokesh v. SEC, ruled that a...more

Mintz - Securities Litigation Viewpoints

Liu v. SEC —SCOTUS Weighs In, But Disgorgement Questions Remain

On June 22, 2020, the Court issued its 8-1 opinion in Liu et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission, No. 18-1501, 591 U.S. ____, 2020 U.S. LEXIS 3374 (2020) (Sotomayor, J.), holding that a disgorgement award is “equitable...more

BakerHostetler

SEC Wins Fight to Retain Disgorgement Power But There's a Catch

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On June 22, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated decision in Liu v. Securities and Exchange Commission, which found that disgorgement awards that do not exceed a wrongdoer’s net profits (gross profits...more

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Liu v. SEC: Supreme Court Upholds the SEC’s Disgorgement Power But the Quagmire Continues

Last week, the Supreme Court decided in Liu v. SEC that the SEC may continue to seek disgorgement in judicial proceedings as a form of equitable relief under the Securities Exchange Act. A ruling to the contrary would have...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Liu v. SEC – Supreme Court Establishes Important Limitations on SEC Disgorgement

- In Liu v. SEC, No. 18-1501, the Supreme Court upheld the SEC’s ability to obtain disgorgement as a form of equitable relief in civil actions in federal court, pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 78u(d)(5). - However, the Court...more

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