The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled that the Securities and Exchange Commission another setback as it seeks to require companies to disclose the use of minerals that may fund militias in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On Tuesday, a 2-1 decision upheld an earlier ruling that prohibited the SEC from requiring companies to publicly report whether their products are “not found to be DRC conflict free” on the grounds that doing so violates free speech protections.
