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Supreme Court Case on SEC Judges Could Disrupt Administrative Proceedings

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the Securities and Exchange Commission’s in-house judges were appointed in violation of the Constitution, agreeing to hear a case that could upend administrative hearing systems across the federal government. The move came at …

Critics Say SEC’s Reforms of In-House Trials Fall Short

The top U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday will try to answer complaints it stacks the deck against defendants at in-house trials by approving its first major revisions to the administrative proceedings in two decades. But the changes by the Securities …