Legal Opinion
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Anthony Materia
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 1, 1984No. 66, Docket 84-6043PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge.
Our era aptly has been styled, and well may be remembered as, the “age of information.” Francis Bacon recognized nearly 400 years ago that “knowledge is power,” but only in the last generation has it risen to the equivalent of the coin of the realm. Nowhere is this commodity more valuable or volatile than in the world of high finance, where facts worth fortunes while secret may be rendered worthless once revealed.
At a certain point, amorphous data must toe translated into the written word. In the financial field, this transmogrification requires masses of…
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