BENNETT v. U.S. S.E.C.

No. 15-2584.

844 F.3d 174 (2016)

Dawn J. BENNETT; Bennett Group Financial Services, LLC, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: December 16, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Andrew Joseph Morris , MORVILLO LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellants. Melissa N. Patterson , UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Gregory Morvillo , Eugene Ingoglia , Ellen M. Murphy , MORVILLO LLP, New York, New York, for Appellants. Benjamin C. Mizer , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Beth S. Brinkmann , Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Mark B. Stern , Mark R. Freeman , Megan Barbero , Daniel Aguilar , Tyce R. Walters , Civil Division, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C.; Rod J. Rosenstein , United States Attorney, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge Duncan wrote the opinion, in which Judge Motz and Judge King joined.


Dawn Bennett and her firm, Bennett Group Financial Services, LLC, (collectively, "Bennett") appeal the district court's dismissal on jurisdictional grounds of her suit challenging the constitutionality of the administrative enforcement proceeding that the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC" or "Commission") brought against...

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