Law360, New York (July 03, 2012, 3:49 PM ET) -- Life insurance settlement broker Life Partners Holdings Inc. asked a Texas federal court Monday to sanction the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in its accounting fraud suit against Life Partners for allegedly improperly issuing a subpoena to obtain testimony from a witness.
The SEC violated the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Life Partners' due process rights by issuing a subpoena and obtaining testimony from nonparty witness Peter T. Cangany Jr., a partner with Life Partners' former auditor Ernst & Young LLP, without giving notice to...