U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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

• non-binding CFTC order confirming settlement offer of defendant that allegedly provided both trading facilities and trading advice to principal manipulator
• “An attempted manipulation requires only an intent to affect the market price of the commodity and some overt act in furtherance of that intent.”
• “CFTC is not required to specifically assert ... a likelihood that the defendants’ alleged price manipulation would actually affect market prices.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).