Supreme Court securities fraud News

Supreme Court Upholds But Curbs SEC’s Power to Force Ill-Gotten Gains in Fraud Cases

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday placed limits on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s practice of forcing defendants to surrender profits obtained through fraud as part of its enforcement of investor-protection laws in federal courts. The court reaffirmed the agency’s …

Supreme Court Upholds SEC on Scope of Securities Fraud Liability

The U.S. Supreme Court reinforced the Securities and Exchange Commission’s powers, upholding sanctions against an investment banker found to have duped investors about a startup company’s financial condition. The justices, voting 6-2, said Francis V. Lorenzo, who worked at Charles …

Supreme Court Weighs Liability for Sharing Fraudulent Securities Information

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared reluctant to further limit the scope of who can be held liable for violating laws that protect investors from securities fraud as they weighed an appeal by a New York investment banker who …