Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Walsh

How courts have described this case

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• holding that spouse would only have a legitimate claim to illegally obtained property if a separation agreement by which the spouse provided valuable consideration “served to create a legitimate interest where none existed before”
• explaining that, in order to qualify as a good faith purchaser for value under state law, relief defendant must provide “fair consideration”
• explaining that a relief defendant may provide value by relinquishing legal claims to marital property through a negotiated separation agreement
• observing that we “resort to certification sparingly” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• observing that certification is appropriate where an issue has not been litigated often enough in New York courts to give rise to \sufficient precedents . . . to make a determination concerning [its] proper outcome\ (internal quotation marks and alterations omitted)
• observing that certification is appropriate where an issue has not been litigated often enough in New York courts to give rise to “sufficient precedents . . . to make a determination concerning [its] proper outcome” (internal quotation marks omitted)

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