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Appeals Court Denies Challenge to SEC Rule Requiring Settling Parties not to Deny Liability

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The SEC’s longstanding practice of requiring settling parties not to deny the charges against them, denounced as the “gag rule” by critics, recently withstood another legal challenge. ...more

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The SEC’s Compulsory Practice of Restraining Free Speech: “You Signed It, So Live With It!”

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Since 1972, the SEC has prohibited defendants who settle civil enforcement actions with the SEC without admitting or denying wrongdoing from later publicly “denying the allegations in the complaint” filed against them. The...more

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