Supreme Court Voices Little Interest in More Curbs on SEC April 21, 2026 By Greg Stohr The US Supreme Court expressed little enthusiasm for curbing one of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s most important enforcement tools,...
SEC’s Power to Recoup Illicit Profits Challenged at Supreme Court April 20, 2026 By Greg Stohr and Nicola M. White Three times over the past decade, the US Supreme Court has cut the Securities and Exchange Commission’s ability to extract...
SEC Enforcement Activity Up From Last Year; One Case Affected 8,400 Investors November 7, 2019 By Pete Schroeder and Chris Prentice Enforcement activity by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in fiscal 2019 resulted in $4.3 billion in fines and disgorgements,...
Supreme Court Hands Wall Street Victory in Curbing SEC Disgorgement Remedy June 5, 2017 By Sarah N. Lynch and Lawrence Hurley The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday scaled back the Securities and Exchange Commission’s power to recover ill-gotten profits from defendants’...