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June 11, 2025
SEC Asks To Pause CAT Suit As It Weighs Audit Trail Rework
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission called Wednesday for the temporary suspension of a class action lawsuit accusing it of illegally collecting the private information of millions of American investors, arguing that potential changes to the way that its market surveillance tool operates could moot the case.
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October 24, 2024
CAT Is 'Out Of The Bag': Judge Won't Block SEC Data Tool
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission can continue to monitor markets through a surveillance tool known as the consolidated audit trail while it fights a class action lawsuit challenging the tool's existence, with a Texas federal judge saying Thursday that enjoining data collection now would cause chaos and disruption.
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August 16, 2024
Challenge To SEC Database Not Too Late, Investors Argue
The Texas investors suing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to stop the collection of trading information through a central database have hit back against the agency's arguments that the lawsuit was filed 12 years too late, saying they have ongoing concerns that their private information could be compromised.
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July 15, 2024
SEC Pans Database Privacy Challenge As Too Little, Too Late
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is looking to rid itself of a proposed class action targeting a market surveillance tool known as the consolidated audit trail, telling a Texas federal judge that shutting down a critical market stability tool 12 years after its creation would harm the public without providing any benefit to suing investors.
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April 19, 2024
Climate Lawsuits Aren't The SEC's Only Legal Headache
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been grabbing headlines over the past couple of months as it attempts to fend off a host of lawsuits challenging recently enacted climate disclosure rules, but the agency has been no stranger to litigation brought by business groups opposing everything from new stock buyback disclosures to the agency's growing private fund oversight to its hands-off approach to crypto rule writing.
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April 16, 2024
SEC Hit With Class Action Over Database Privacy Concerns
A conservative think tank filed a lawsuit in Texas federal court Tuesday hoping to put an end to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission market surveillance tool known as the consolidated audit trail, arguing in the proposed class action that the database threatens to subject the personal information of tens of millions of American citizens to a possible data breach.