· 4/15/1986
Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. British American Commodity Options Corporation and John Forma, Appeal of John Forma
Citations
- 788 F.2d 92
- 1986 U.S. App. LEXIS 24514
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “disgorgement serves the purpose of depriving the wrongdoer of his ill-gotten gains and deterring violations of law.”
- ”[w]e have recognized that disgorgement serves the purpose of depriving the wrongdoer of his ill-gotten gains and deterring violations of law”
- disgorgement of all sole shareholder’s profits from brokerage is appropriate even without dollar for dollar accounting of illegally deprived profits where fraud was systemic and pervasive
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Judges: Mansfield, Timbers, Meskill
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