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S.E.C. v. RANDOLPH

No. C-82-5343 WHO.

564 F.Supp. 137 (1983)

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, Plaintiff, v. James H. RANDOLPH, Jr., and Charles Blackard, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

April 15, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Sturc, U.S. S.E.C., Div. of Enforcement, Washington, D.C., Bobby C. Lawyer, Associate Regional Admin., U.S. S.E.C., San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff.

Robert F. Watson, Law, Snakard & Gambill, Fort Worth, Tex., David J. Romanski, Steinhart & Falconer, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants.

OPINION

ORRICK, District Judge.

"Insider trading" is the term commonly used to describe the act of purchasing or selling securities while in the possession of material nonpublic information about an issue or the trading market for an issuer's securities. Chief Justice Burger has described this misappropriation of valuable, nonpublic information entrusted to a person in confidence as simply "stealing." See Chiarella v. United States,

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