In That Case: Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy
The Justice Insiders Podcast: SEC Plays Chicken with Jarkesy
The Nutter Securities Enforcement Update is a periodic update of noteworthy recent securities enforcement activity, settlements, decisions, and charges. We provide brief summaries that highlight recent enforcement action...more
When legal historians look back on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2024 term, the most eye-popping decisions will almost certainly be the immunity and ballot access claims lodged by former President Trump. Those opinions are,...more
In this edition of Insights, we take a closer look at the megadeals and sponsor transactions driving recent M&A activity, the importance of staying ahead of the risks in AI development and deployment, and other diverse...more
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 term is another chapter in the Roberts Court’s trend of shifting power away from administrative agencies and into the hands of courts....more
A win for business. The Supreme Court ends Chevron Deference in a spate of recent decisions limiting administrative authority and assisting regulated parties in challenging agency rulemaking. Loper Bright and Relentless-...more
Alongside the rapid pace of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rulemaking, the SEC and its Staff continue to shape regulatory obligations for investment advisers in 2024 through guidance, alerts, enforcement actions,...more
“Chevron is overruled,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, because “[t]he deference that Chevron requires of courts reviewing agency action cannot be squared with the [Administrative...more
The recent United States Supreme Court decisions in Loper Bright Enterprises, overruling Chevron, as well as Jarkesy and Corner Post will have a significant impact on how regulated industries will conduct business going...more
This summer, the Supreme Court ended its term shortly after issuing game-changing rulings that modify the authority of federal agencies. Given the result of restraining agencies such as the FTC and FCC from interpreting and...more
The 2023-2024 Term of the United States Supreme Court will undoubtedly have far-reaching implications in a number of areas, but perhaps most significantly—at least for regular readers of the OSHA Defense Report blog—with...more
The end of the Supreme Court’s recent term saw two major decisions in the field of administrative law: Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Securities & Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy. The Loper Bright decision, which...more
The Supreme Court’s most recent term has forced the SEC to face new realities regarding its powers. As has been widely publicized, the Supreme Court’s overruling of Chevron in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo highlighted...more
At the end of the 2024 term, the executive branch struck out when the US Supreme Court issued three separate decisions along ideological lines that have the potential to materially weaken the enforcement authority of federal...more
Few legal developments sound less sleep-inducing than “changes to federal rulemaking authority.” But don’t mistake dullness for a lack of impact: a pair of Supreme Court decisions just issued will arguably have the single...more
In “Case” You Missed It is a new column by Balch & Bingham attorney Tripp DeMoss that briefly summarizes a recently issued decision by higher courts like the U.S. Supreme Court and Alabama Supreme Court in cases of interest...more
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) recently issued two opinions that are likely to have a longer-term effect on the way securities industry matters are handled. Juries, not the Securities Exchange Commission...more
The Supreme Court issued several momentous decisions last term that will have a lasting impact on employer practices. The Justices continued to shape the workplace law landscape by ruling on an array of issues involving...more
This term, SCOTUS delivered two big wallops to the administrative state in the decisions eliminating Chevron deference (Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Dept of Commerce, see this Pubco post) and...more
The Supreme Court’s recent term is likely to be remembered as one that significantly affected the long-standing roles and responsibilities of federal agencies, including the deference afforded to their interpretations of...more
A Historic Term for Administrative Law - This month we wrote extensively on both the Loper Bright/Relentless decisions, which overturned the Chevron doctrine, and the Jarkesy decision, which dealt a significant blow to the...more
Recent Supreme Court administrative law rulings change the power dynamic between the executive and the judiciary in critical areas of statutory interpretation, enforcement, and immunity from legal challenge....more
Discussion of administrative law usually doesn’t happen at the dinner table. But a series of recent US Supreme Court decisions may have changed this introducing talk of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the...more
The Supreme Court on June 27 issued its opinion in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy in which it held that when the SEC seeks civil penalties against a defendant for securities fraud, the Seventh Amendment...more
In a trilogy of cases decided at the end of this term, the United States Supreme Court made significant changes to the administrative law terrain by: eliminating Chevron deference....more
In the final week of this year’s Supreme Court term, the Court issued several decisions that alter the role of federal agencies in the way laws are interpreted and enforced, and thus the way that business will be done in the...more