Legal Opinion
Rivers v. Rosenthal & Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 16, 1980No. 79-1313PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents a single legal question: whether there exists an implied private right of action under the Commodity Exchange Act (“CEA”), 7 U.S.C. §§ 1-24, as revised in 1974, to redress commodity futures customers for damages sustained from their brokers’ violations of the anti-fraud provisions and broker registration requirements of that Act, 7 U.S.C. §§ 6b,1 6k,2 *777and the corresponding regulations, 17 C.F.R. §§ 32.3, 32.9 (1979).3 Relying upon such an implied right of action, as well as fraud and fiduciary violation grounds with which we are not here concerned,…
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3Cited by27 opinions
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