As discussed here, in April 2015 the Second Circuit rejected the DOJ’s petition for a rehearing in the landmark U.S. v. Newman insider trading case that has caused so much disruption to both the DOJ and the SEC. Facing a looming August 3 deadline to appeal the Second Circuit’s opinion, the United States today filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the U.S Supreme Court, asking that court to hear the case.
