Securities & Exchange Commission v. Whittemore

How courts have described this case

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

• remarking that district courts have “broad equitable power to fashion appropriate remedies for federal securities law violations”
• approving joint- and-several disgorgement liability where there is a close re- lationship between the defendants and collaboration in ex- ecuting the wrongdoing
• Pointing out the difference between “the threshold inquiry of patent-eligibility, and the substantive conditions of patentability”
• approving joint and several disgorgement liability where consented-to allegations in the complaint made clear that defendants acted in concert in executing a single fraudulent scheme
• erroneous admission of evidence did not violate “substantial rights” where the evidence “was not determinative” of the outcome
• “In statutory construction, our starting point is the plain language of 12 the statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).