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Following the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia last weekend, Democrats and Republicans girded for battle over President Barack Obama’s expected nomination to the high court. The political scrum could have spillover effects in the world of financial reform, where investors and consumer advocates await the confirmation of two nominees to the Securities and Exchange […]
Rep. Luke Messer, R-Ind., a member of the House Financial Services Committee, plans to introduce legislation in coming weeks that would give people appearing in administrative proceedings the same rights to counsel, evidence discovery and avoiding self-incrimination that they would have in federal court. via Lawmaker wants to give SEC defendants greater rights — Investment News
After the repeated challenges to the SEC’s in-house courts as previously reported, Mark Cuban joined the debate by filing an amicus curiae brief in support of petitioners Raymond J. Lucia Companies, Inc. and Raymond J. Lucia (collectively “Lucia”) in Lucia v. SEC. Cuban, describing himself as a “first-hand witness to and victim of SEC overreach” […]
Get caught up with the Securities Docket News Wire for February 17, 2016.