Legal Opinion
Securities & Exchange Commission v. Smyth
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 10, 2005No. 04-11985PublishedCited by 381 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
In this case, the Securities and Exchange Commission obtained a judgment against Arnold E. Johns, Jr., for $743,127.02, which represented the profits he reaped from insider trading in the shares of Vista 2000, Inc. Johns appeals the judgment, contending that the procedure the district court employed in determining the profits he should disgorge denied him due process. We agree and therefore vacate the judgment and remand the case for further proceedings.
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Johns was president and a director of Vista 2000, Inc. (Vista), a Delaware corporation based in Roswell, Georgia,…
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