Legal Opinion
Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Thomas W. Collins
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 7, 1993No. 92-2917PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued subpoenas directing the appellants, Thomas Collins and others, to produce copies of their federal income tax returns for the scrutiny of the Commission’s staff, which is investigating the appellants for possible civil violations of the Commodity Exchange Act, 7 U.S.C. §§ 1 et seq. Among the suspected violations is the trading of commodities futures contracts other than on a commodities exchange. The staff believes that these trades were spurious, being intended to enable the appellants to reallocate losses to persons who…
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