Apr 7, 20080
Ninth Circuit Reverses Seminal Parallel Proceedings Case
Categories: Future Attorneys, News
On Friday, the Ninth Circuit, in United States v. Stringer, reversed a district court ruling that limited the use of financial records submitted to the SEC, as part of a civil suit, in a parallel criminal proceeding. The district court held criminal indictments were to be dismissed, and that subpoena responses from SEC response could not be used in a criminal trial against defendants because the government had engaged in deceitful conduct by using a civil investigation to develop the criminal investigation, ... Read More
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