Legal Opinion
United States v. Stewart
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 5, 2018No. Docket No. 17-593; August Term, 2017PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Berman dissents in a separate opinion.
2Per curiam
This is an unusual insider trading case, in that defendant-appellant Sean Stewart does not contest that he provided material, nonpublic information to his father, Robert Stewart. Rather, Sean readily acknowledges that "he was very close to his father, routinely confided in him, and even occasionally mentioned potential deals," and that his father and others then invested based upon that information. Def. Br. 1. The key question facing the jury was whether to believe Sean when he denied that he knew that his father would trade on the information that…
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