insider-trading
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-576 | Stephen Buyer v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | constitutional-limitations criminal-prosecution insider-trading prosecutorial-discretion stock-exchange venue | The question presented is whether a stock trading on an exchange whose physical headquarters is located in Manhattan suffices to establish venue in th… |
| 25A205 | Stephen Buyer v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-limitation electronic-trading insider-trading sixth-amendment stock-exchange venue | Question not identified. | |
| 22-330 | Eric Weller v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-10-07 | Denied | Response Waived | conspiracy fiduciary-duty insider-trading knowledge material-nonpublic-information personal-benefit remote-tippee tippee tippee-liability | Liability for insider trading arises when someone acts on material nonpublic information. Dirks v. SEC, 463 U.S. 646, 653 (1983). That person may be a… |
| 21-6928 | Dennis Lee Maxberry v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process honorable-discharge insider-trading military-discharge prejudice statutes-of-limitation veterans-affairs veterans-rights | 1. Isn't a questionable claim by the defendant's that the Discharged Peace-time Veteran who had been discharged to a soft landing usually is when the … |
| 21-580 | Vitaly Korchevsky v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-10-20 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process evidence grand-jury grand-jury-clause insider-trading material-nonpublic-information securities-exchange-act securities-fraud stock-trading | 1. The Grand Jury Clause of the United States Constitution states that "[n]o person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime… |
| 20-1161 | Edward J. Kosinski v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review confidentiality-agreement constitutional-vagueness criminal-fraud fiduciary-duty harmless-error insider-trading trust-and-confidence vagueness | 1. Whether a simple agreement to keep information confidential by itself can establish the fiduciary or similar relationship of "trust and confidence"… |
| 20-866 | Francesca Allen, et al. v. Wells Fargo & Company, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-12-30 | Denied | Relisted (4) | duty-of-loyalty duty-of-prudence employee-stock-ownership-plan erisa fiduciary-duty fifth-third-v-dudenhoeffer insider-trading prudence-standard securities-law securities-laws stock-ownership | 1. Whether, under Dudenhoeffer, ESOP fiduciaries are effectively immune from duty-of-prudence liability for the failure to publicly disclose inside in… |
| 20-5649 | David Blaszczak v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-09-10 | GVR | Amici (1)IFP | conversion criminal-liability dirks-v-sec fraud fraud-statute government-property insider-trading regulatory-information statutory-interpretation title-15 title-18 | 1. Whether information about a proposed government regulation is "property" and a "thing of value" belonging to the regulatory agency such that its di… |
| 20-306 | Robert Olan and Theodore Huber v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-09-09 | GVR | Amici (2) | conversion criminal-procedure dirks-v-sec fraud fraud-statute government-regulation insider-trading personal-benefit property-rights securities-law | 1. Whether information about a proposed government regulation is "property" or a "thing of value" belonging to a federal, state, or local regulator su… |
| 19-7259 | John Afriyie v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-forfeiture due-process insider-trading jury-trial libretti-v-united-states sixth-amendment | In this insider trading case, the court of appeals affirmed a sweeping criminal forfeiture judgment encompassing all potential trades combined in a si… |
| 18-972 | Mathew Martoma v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-01-28 | Denied | Amici (2) | corporate-disclosure dirks-v-sec fiduciary-duty insider-trading personal-benefit securities-law securities-regulation tippee tippee-liability tipper | Whether, in an insider trading prosecution, the government must demonstrate that the tipper received a personal benefit in exchange for providing insi… |
| 18-7222 | Winifred Jiau v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus insider-trading jury-instruction jury-instructions statutory-interpretation | The Second Circuit held, contrary to the holdings of Supreme Court considering the question, a prisoner seeking a Certificate of Appealability (COA) m… |