Patricia A. Johnson 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.

• explaining that a sanction “would less resemble punishment if the SEC had focused on ... the degree of risk [defendant] posed to the . public”
• explaining that a legal action is not one “for a penalty” where it “seek[s] only compensation for the damages suffered”
• comparing a six-month suspension and censure to disbarment and describing both as “penalties”
• “[T]he ordinary, contemporary, common meaning of the word ‘penalty,’ [is] a sanction imposed by the government for unlawful or proscribed conduct which goes beyond remedying the damage caused to the harmed party.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).