Legal Opinion
Securities & Exchange Commission v. First Choice Management Services, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 1, 2012No. 11-1702PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This case, in the form in which it comes to us (an appeal from a contempt judgment against a company called SonCo Holdings), has a small head but a long tail. It began in 2000 as a suit by the SEC, filed in a federal district court in Indiana, charging fraud in violation of federal securities law. The court appointed a receiver, Joseph Bradley, to take charge of the defendant’s assets and distribute them among the victims of the $31 million fraud. Bradley went hunting for the assets and found that some of them had been used to acquire oil and gas leases in Texas in the…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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- Herman & MacLean v. HuddlestonSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- International Union, United Mine Workers v. BagwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
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