Month: February 2013

The Supreme Court handed down two significant securities law decisions this week. In the first the High Court, in unanimous opinion, rejected the contention of the SEC that the five year statute of limitations for seeking a penalty can be …

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The Supreme Court rejected the SEC’s effort to extend the five year statute of limitations for imposing a civil penalty by engrafting a discovery exception onto the statute. Chief Justice Roberts, writing for a unanimous Court, held that under Section …

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