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9-0 Supreme Court Ruling Lets SEC Claw Back Profits

The SEC can claw back illegal profits nationwide without proving specific investor losses after a unanimous Supreme Court win.

Key takeaways

  • On June 4, six weeks after oral arguments, the Supreme Court gave the SEC a clean enforcement win: the agency can recover illegal profits without proving t...
  • That timing matters because the ruling in Sripetch v. SEC ends a live split among federal appeals courts and removes a defense that had gained traction in the **Se...
  • June 4: the Court moves the fight from victim losses to illegal profits
  • The practical shift is sharp. Before this ruling, defendants in some SEC cases could argue that the agency had not connected their conduct to identifiable investor los...

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