U.S. COMMODITY FUTURES v. HUNTER WISE COMMODITIES

No. 13-10993.

749 F.3d 967 (2014)

UNITED STATES COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. HUNTER WISE COMMODITIES, LLC, et al., Defendants, Harold Edward Martin, Jr., Fred Jager, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 15, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anne Stukes , U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Washington, DC, Thaddeus Glotfelty , Rosemary Hollinger , Joseph A. Konizeski , Carlin Ray Metzger , Brigitte Weyls , U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Chicago, IL, Jeff C. Le Riche , Peter L. Riggs , U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Kansas City, MO, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Jay Bruce Grossman , William L. Tucker , J.B. Grossman, PA, Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Defendants-Appellants.

Melanie Emmons Damian, Miami, FL, pro se.

Kenneth Dante Murena , Damian & Valori, LLP, Miami, FL, Joshua Arnold Katz , James D. Sallah , Sallah & Cox, LLC, Boca Raton, FL, Richard Brian Carey , Carey Law Group, P.A., West Palm Beach, FL, Jeffrey C. Pepin , Law Offices of Paul J. Burkhart, PL, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Bradford Michael Cohen , Law Office of Bradford Cohen, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Gary M. Sinclair , Attorney at Law, Chicago, IL, for Defendants.

Before MARCUS, DUBINA and WALKER, Circuit Judges.


DUBINA, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from the district court's grant of a preliminary injunction. Amendments to the Commodity Exchange Act ("the Act") made by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 purport to expand the enforcement authority of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("the Commission"). Pub.L. No. 111-203, 124 Stat. 1376, 1732-33 (effective July 16, 2011) ("Dodd-Frank"); see also 7 U.S.C. § 2 (drawing...

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