SEC prevails in constitutional challenge to in-house judges
It will assuredly not quell controversy surrounding the SEC’s use of in-house judicial hearings, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is now the first appellate court to uphold the constitutionality of those administrative proceedings. Joe Mont reports.
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