Shared repayment of illegal profits
Sexton v. Securities and Exchange Commission
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Paul Sexton, Mike Veldhuis, and Jackson Friesen ask whether a district court may make defendants each repay the full amount at issue based only on coordinated wrongdoing; their petition says the court found no evidence that the individual defendants received funds.
- What's at stake
- The three petitioners' challenge to being ordered to repay the full amount remains unresolved.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The petition is pending and has been distributed for a conference, which is not a decision to hear the case.
The petitioners say the order lacks factors the Supreme Court identified in its 2020 Liu v. SEC decision.
Question presented
Whether a district court, having found that the evidence does not demonstrate receipt of funds by individual defendants, can nonetheless impose joint-and-several disgorgement based solely on “concerted wrongdoing,” notwithstanding the strong presumption against joint-and-several liability and the absence of any of the relevant factors this Court identified in Liu v. SEC, 591 U.S. 71 (2020).
What happens next
The Court must decide whether to hear the case. The petition was distributed for a conference scheduled for Dec. 4, 2026; that does not guarantee an order date.
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Sources
Primary materials from the Court and the parties. Grounded in docket records and cited sources. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.