Edward John McCarthy v. Securities and Exchange Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a court “need not reach ... challenges [when] an independent ground for [a] decision remains unchallenged”
• holding that a court “need not reach . . . challenges [when] an independent ground for [a] decision remains unchallenged”
• noting that a petitioner’s attorney must “include his most cogent arguments in his opening brief, upon pain of otherwise finding them waived.”
• explaining that “arguments not raised in an appellant’s opening brief . . . are not properly before an appellate court”
• noting the Exchange Act authorizes expulsion “as a means of protecting investors, if ... necessary or appropriate to that end”
• “[A]rguments not raised in an appellant’s opening brief, but only in [a] reply brief, are not properly before an appellate court ….”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).