Smith v. Securities & Exchange Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• reiterating that equitable freezing power in enforcement proceeding extends to non-party’s ill-gotten gains
• describing lowered evidentiary burden generally where nothing “more than an asset freeze is in ques tion”
• noting the “sweeping mandate manifest in the securities laws . . . and the district court’s broad equitable power to fashion ancillary relief when its jurisdiction under those law has been involved”
• “In this jurisdiction, injunctions sought by the SEC do not require a showing of irreparable harm or the unavailability of remedies at law.”
• discussing such relief in context of alleged securities violations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).