January 09, 2017
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Atlanta-based investment adviser Timbervest LLC filed competing briefs Friday in the D.C. Circuit, disagreeing over whether the agency's in-house court is biased and whether time limits on agency sanctions apply to associational bars.
June 27, 2016
The D.C. Circuit dealt a blow on Friday to Atlanta-based investment adviser Timbervest LLC's attempt to have the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's in-house court ruled unconstitutional, sending the case back to the SEC to consider new evidence in the sanctions fight.
May 12, 2016
Atlanta-based investment adviser Timbervest LLC urged the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday not to send its suit seeking to overturn U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sanctions back to the SEC administrative tribunal that Timbervest claims is unconstitutional.
May 04, 2016
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday told the D.C. Circuit that Timbervest LLC’s challenge to the agency’s in-house court will have to return there if the investment adviser submits new evidence about its sanctions, potentially putting the constitutional arguments on hold.
April 29, 2016
Four amici curiae filed briefs Friday with the D.C. Circuit arguing that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's in-house court is unconstitutional and saying that the agency improperly sanctioned Atlanta-based investment adviser Timbervest LLC.
April 22, 2016
The D.C. Circuit on Friday was presented with another chance to decide the constitutionality of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's in-house court when Atlanta-based investment adviser Timbervest LLC filed its opening statement on an appeal of an agency sanction against it and four of its principals.