Legal Opinion
Jeffrey L. Silverman v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 16, 1977No. 76-1469PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SPRECHER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal tests the validity of a suspension of trading privileges on commodity futures markets imposed upon an account executive in the commodity brokerage business.
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) is an independent federal regulatory agency which began operating on April 21,1975, pursuant to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Act of 1974 (CFTC Act or Act), Pub.L.No.93-463, 88 Stat. 1389, et seq., which amended the Commodity Exchange Act, 7 U.S.C. §§ 1 — 17a.
The CFTC’s principal responsibility relates to contracts of sale of…
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