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Disgorgement Appeals Enforcement Actions

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

SEC Disgorgement Stuck in Circuit Split After Supreme Court Declines to Intervene

On June 6, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari in Navellier & Associates, Inc. v. SEC, declining to resolve a circuit split regarding the circumstances under which the U.S. Securities and Exchange...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Supreme Court Denies Certiorari in SEC Disgorgement Case

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On June 6, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the petition for certiorari in the case of Navellier & Associates, Inc. v. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This decision effectively upholds the lower courts’ rulings,...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

First Circuit’s Reversal of Summary Judgment Clarifies Materiality Standard for Advisory Conflicts

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A recent ruling may raise the bar for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in charging registered investment advisers for omissions of potential conflicts and seeking disgorgement, giving the defense bar additional...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

SEC v. Commonwealth: a win for the securities industry

On April 1, 2025, the First Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a nearly $95 million judgment against our client Commonwealth Financial Network related to the sufficiency of Commonwealth’s revenue-sharing disclosures. The First...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

First Circuit Vacates Summary Judgment Award and $93 Million Order in Revenue Sharing Case

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On April 1, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit overturned a $93 million judgment issued against Commonwealth Financial Network (“Commonwealth”) nearly one year ago in a case by the Securities and...more

Jones Day

First Circuit Reverses SEC Win in $93 Million Investment Adviser Disclosure Case

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The court rejects the SEC's per se materiality argument and requires proof of a causal connection between the defendant's allegedly inadequate disclosures and purported unlawful profits....more

Proskauer - Corporate Defense and Disputes

Disgorgement Continues at the SEC

On October 12, 2021, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a disgorgement order issued by the SEC, in—according to the opinion— the first appellate ruling on the topic since the Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in Liu v....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Second Circuit Upholds Enforceability of SEC Tolling Agreements

In Securities & Exchange Comm’n v. Fowler, No. 20-1081, 2021 WL 3083655 (2d Cir. July 22, 2021), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld a lower court judgment awarding the Securities and Exchange...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Class Dismissed

California Supreme Court: Civil Penalty Claims Brought By Government Under UCl And FAL Should Be Determined By Court—Not Jury

The California Supreme Court has confirmed that claims for civil penalties brought by government entities under California’s Unfair Competition Law (“UCL”) and False Advertising Law (“FAL”) should be decided by a judge—not a...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Skadden's 2020 Insights

Despite political and economic uncertainties, markets and deal activity were resilient in 2019, and strong fundamentals remain in place heading into 2020. Companies continue to face a challenging litigation and enforcement...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

SEC Injunctions: A New Standard?

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The remedy of choice for the SEC Enforcement Division has always been the statutory injunction. For many years  the only remedy available to the Division was the obey-the-law statutory injunction....more

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SEC Holds Kokesh Does Not Impact FINRA Industry Bar

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On August 23, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) held in In re John M.E. Saad that the US Supreme Court’s decision in Kokesh v. SEC had no impact on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Willful False Advertiser Not Subject to Disgorgement of Profits or Injunctive Relief

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a district court ruling that the defendant need not disgorge its profits or be subject to any further injunction, despite a jury finding that it had willfully falsely...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Five Key Takeaways From the D.C. Circuit’s PHH Decision

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The legal challenge by PHH Corp. (PHH) to a June 4, 2015, decision by the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) in connection with the Bureau’s enforcement proceeding against PHH has captivated the...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Eleventh Circuit Limits SEC’s Ability to Seek Disgorgement or Declaratory Relief for Conduct Occurring More Than Five Years Before...

On May 26, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued an important decision regarding the applicability of 28 U.S.C. § 2462, the five-year statute of limitations governing SEC enforcement actions...more

Maynard Nexsen

Cutting Through the Constitutionality Haze in the Battle Between PHH Corporation and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

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So much has been written in recent weeks about the battle between PHH Corporation and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The panel heard oral argument on April 12,...more

K&L Gates LLP

D.C. Circuit Appears Poised to Overturn First CFPB Enforcement Action to Reach the Court: Five Key Takeaways From Yesterday’s Oral...

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Major financial firms almost never litigate with their regulators. As a result, regulators often take aggressive enforcement positions with little fear of judicial scrutiny. That’s been especially true for the Consumer...more

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D.C. Circuit Judge Expresses Concern That CFPB Concentrates “Huge Power” in Single Director

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Yesterday’s oral argument in the CFPB v. PHH Corporation appeal included sharp questioning about the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) single-director structure, which the parties agreed...more

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