bank-secrecy-act

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5185 George Gaio Mano v. Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 9th-amendment bank-secrecy bank-secrecy-act constitutional-privacy data-collection foreign-bank-account-report fourth-amendment privacy privacy-rights 1. Everyone needs a bank account, and most financial transactions take place on the internet nowadays. Yet, a 1970 statute, the Bank Secrecy Act, give…
22-335 Richard Collins v. United States Third Circuit 2022-10-11 Denied Response Waived bank-secrecy-act due-process fbar-penalty internal-revenue-service irs proportionality tax-reporting treasury-department willful-failure Whether the Government overreached by imposing any penalty on a taxpayer who owed no additional income tax and voluntarily amended his tax return befo…
22-177 Monica Toth v. United States First Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (5) bank-secrecy-act civil-penalties civil-penalty deterrence deterrent-penalty eighth-amendment excessive-fines-clause fbar foreign-bank-accounts The Bank Secrecy Act and implementing regulations require U.S. persons to file an annual report—called an FBAR—if they have foreign bank accounts cont…
21-1195 Alexandru Bittner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-02 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) bank-secrecy-act civil-penalty fbar fbar-reporting foreign-accounts penalty-assessment per-account per-form statutory-construction treasury-regulations Whether a "violation" under the Act is the failure to file an annual FBAR (no matter the number of foreign accounts), or whether there is a separate v…
21-82 Alpine Securities Corporation v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law agency-authority bank-secrecy-act enforcement-authority mens-rea sec-enforcement securities-and-exchange-commission securities-exchange-act statutory-interpretation treasury-department In enacting and amending the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Congress vested the Secretary of the Treasury with the authority to administer, interpret, and en…
20-144 Spencer Savings Bank, SLA, et al. v. Lawrence B. Seidman New Jersey 2020-08-12 Denied bank-secrecy-act civil-liability customer-privacy financial-crimes financial-institution non-disclosure-obligation state-court-liability statutory-scheme suspicious-activity-report A recent decision from a New Jersey appellate court (which the New Jersey Supreme Court declined to review) joins a growing number of decisions across…
19-347 AER Advisors, Inc., et al. v. Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC First Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) annunzio-wylie-anti-money-laundering-act anti-money-laundering bank-secrecy-act choice-of-law civil-immunity criminal-disclosure diversity-jurisdiction federal-transfer financial-institutions forum-selection good-faith-reporting immunity immunity-defense To encourage banks, other financial institutions, and their employees to report actual or suspected criminal activity, Congress enacted the Bank Secre…