Ascher v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that if “seller is raising operational funds for an enterprise and the buyer is interested in profit, the instrument is most likely to be a ‘security’”
• holding redaction is required only if \the objectionable portion of the statement [could] easily be separated\ from the remainder of the statement and if the prejudicial value outweighs the probative value
• noting the Virginia Securities Act is modeled after federal securities law
• “The concert of action instruction, like Instruction 33, was then given to address the liability of the conspirators if the jury found a conspiracy existed.” (emphasis in original)
• commenting on the breadth of the analogous Federal Securities Acts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).