Legal Opinion
United States Securities & Exchange Commission v. Infinity Group Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided May 4, 2000No. 98-1215, 98-1216, 98-1217PublishedCited by 144 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
McKEE, Circuit Judge.
Defendants appeal the grant of a permanent injunction in this civil action for securities fraud. The defendants argue that the instruments that they offered to investors were not “securities” under federal law, and that the district court therefore lacked subject matter jurisdiction. The defendants also challenge certain eviden-tiary and procedural rulings that the district court made during the hearing on the motion for a permanent injunction. For the reasons that follow, we will affirm.
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In November 1995, defendants Geoffrey Benson and Geoffrey…
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