Posts tagged Justice Thomas.

In an unusual three-page concurrence to a November 10 cert denial, Justice Scalia (joined by Justice Thomas) virtually called for a case that would subject the SEC's insider-trading interpretations to scrutiny. Because courts owe no deference to a prosecutor's interpretation of a criminal law, asked Scalia, then why should they owe Chevron deference to an executive agency's interpretation of a law [like '34 Act § 10(b)] that's enforced both criminally and administratively? Scalia also criticized deferring to the SEC's expansive insider-trading theory in the case as turning ...

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