bank-secrecy-act
7 cases — ← All topics
| 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… |