Legal Opinion
Crooker v. Securities and Exchange Commission
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 23, 1947No. 4261PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Per curiam
This is a petition under § 9(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 to review a so-called “order” of the Securities and Exchange Commission entered under § 8(a) of that Act, as amended, 48 Stat. 79, 54 Stat. 857. The matter has to do with the registration statement covering a proposed offering of a new issue of securities by a corporation subject to the Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 77a et seq.
Section 5(a) makes it unlawful for any person to use the instrumentalities of interstate commerce, or the mails, to sell a security “unless a registration statement is in effect” as to such security, upon pain of civil…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 95,903 United States of America v. Fred C. Tallant, Sr., and William M. Womack, Jr.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1977
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