Securities and Exchange Commission, Petitioner v. George R. Jarkesy, Jr., et al.

  1. October 04, 2023

    Justices Urged To Halt All In-House Cases Until Congress Acts

    The U.S. Supreme Court should suspend all in-house enforcement proceedings until Congress makes it easier for the president to fire administrative law judges, a pharmaceutical distributor that's fighting its own administrative enforcement action said Wednesday as it stepped into a battle over the future of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's administrative courts.

  2. September 29, 2023

    Energy Cases To Watch This Supreme Court Term

    There's plenty on the U.S. Supreme Court's plate this term to interest the energy sector, including a pair of blockbuster cases that could reshape administrative law as well as potential fights over clean energy and transmission development. Here are the energy-related cases the Supreme Court will consider this term.

  3. September 29, 2023

    'Administrative State' Attacks Soar To High Court Crescendo

    After methodically amassing U.S. Supreme Court victories against agency enforcers and regulators, a legal crusade against "administrative state" powers is poised to parlay piecemeal wins into a climactic conquest during the high court's new term, which is already teeming with anti-agency cases.

  4. September 22, 2023

    Enviro Cases To Watch This Supreme Court Term

    The U.S. Supreme Court has already agreed to review two cases with important implications for environmental and administrative law during its 2023 term, and several more litigants are seeking the justices' attention on issues ranging from financial responsibility for Superfund cleanups to whether the federal government properly estimated the social costs of greenhouse gases.

  5. September 05, 2023

    Striking Down SEC Courts Would Hurt States, Justices Told

    State securities regulators said Tuesday that they had good reason to be concerned about a constitutional challenge to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's in-house court system because a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against the federal agency could harm their own efforts to fight fraud.

  6. August 29, 2023

    SEC Urges Justices To Undo Ruling Against In-House Courts

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed its opening brief in a U.S. Supreme Court case that could spell the end of administrative law courts, urging the nation's highest court to reverse a lower court ruling that the agency says could prevent it from protecting investors against potentially harmful conduct.

  7. July 07, 2023

    Why PTAB Attys Should Watch The High Court's SEC Fight

    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision to review the constitutionality of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's administrative courts may invoke a sense of deja vu for attorneys who practice at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, but that doesn't mean patent attorneys should disregard it as duplicative. 

  8. June 30, 2023

    SEC Courts May Tumble Under Supreme Court Scrutiny

    The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case Friday that could spell the end for the administrative courts used by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and dozens of other federal agencies that prosecute alleged rulebreakers in-house, experts told Law360.

  9. May 24, 2023

    Fund Boss Asks Justices For Relief From 'Byzantine' SEC Suit

    A hedge fund manager who has been locked in a legal battle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for more than a decade has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to free him from the agency's "Byzantine administrative apparatus," acknowledging the court is likely to hear the case regardless.

  10. March 10, 2023

    Justices Likely To Hear Case That 'Cast Cloud' On SEC Courts

    The U.S. Supreme Court is likely to take up a case that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission argues has "cast a cloud" over the functioning of federal administrative law courts, even though the agency's use of its own in-house courts has been on a downward trajectory for years, legal experts told Law360.