WITTER v. COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COM'N

No. 15-3535.

832 F.3d 745 (2016)

Dirk L. WITTER, Petitioner, v. COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 10, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dirk L. Witter, Mesa, AZ, Pro Se.

Robert A. Schwartz , Martin B. White , Attorneys, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Office of the General Counsel, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before WOOD, Chief Judge, and ROVNER and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.


This is a tale of miscommunication. Our task is to decide where the resulting loss must fall. It involves some futures transactions that Dirk Witter, whose broker was TransAct Futures, was trying to stop. Witter contends that he telephoned Robert Skelton, an employee of TransAct, with...

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