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January 09, 2025

To Protect Democracy, Investors, and Commodity Markets, D.C. Circuit Should Uphold CFTC’s Decision to Prohibit Gambling on Elections

By Steve Hall | Legal Director and Securities Specialist January 9, 2025 Beginning in 2022, KalshiEX LLC sought to introduce an “event contract” allowing speculators to wager up to $100 million on…

Fact Sheets

July 01, 2024

Better Markets Case Tracker

Important Cases in the Federal Courts SUPREME COURT GUTS A PILLAR OF THE SEC’S ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY SEC v. Jarkesy, No. 22-859 (decided June 27, 2024) (S. Ct.) – Supreme Court rules SEC…

Legal

September 26, 2022

Better Markets Issues Report on Supreme Court’s 2022-2023 Term, Focusing on the Court’s Views on Financial Regulation and the Structure of the Administrative State

Abortion, gun control, the First Amendment—Supreme Court decisions on these sorts of social-policy topics consumed much of the nation’s attention last term. But that term was also momentous for financial regulation and…

Reports

March 15, 2022

Better Markets Releases Supreme Court Report: If Confirmed to the Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Will Help Improve the Financial Lives of American Consumers and Investors

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court is good news for all Americans struggling to meet their basic needs, achieve a decent standard of living, and plan for a safe…

Reports

October 22, 2021

Better Markets Releases Supreme Court Report: The Financial Cases, a Justice’s Track Record, and the Transparency Challenges

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a number of cases that will have an unusually profound impact on controversial social policy questions during its 2021-2022 term. The Court’s docket, however,…

Reports

July 30, 2021

Better Markets Releases Supreme Court Report: A Look Back Over the Supreme Court’s 2020-2021 Term

The past year has been a uniquely challenging time. As most Americans and people around the world struggled to survive the Covid-19 pandemic, businesses and government institutions alike were forced to adapt…

Reports

May 29, 2020

Fact Sheet: Make a Bad Arbitration System Even Worse for Investors Or Protect Their Right to Assert Claims for a Broker’s Rule Violations? The Fourth Circuit Will Hear Argument on May 29, 2020

On May 29, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit will hear oral argument in a case that will determine whether injured investors can recover in arbitration for…

Fact Sheets

April 17, 2020

Fact Sheet: Better Markets, AFREF Urge SCOTUS to Review Second Circuit’s Flawed Decision on Market Manipulation

Better Markets urges the Supreme Court to grant a petition for certiorari and review a Second Circuit’s decision that, unless reversed, will immunize manipulation of U.S. futures markets by those who operate from abroad. That in turn…

Fact Sheets

March 18, 2020

Fact Sheet: The Office of Management and Budget Takes a Wrong Turn as It Seeks Input on Ways to Weaken Already Inadequate Agency Law Enforcement

The Office of Management and Budget, the agency responsible for implementing the President’s regulatory objectives, has issued a request for information (RFI) seeking ways to reform the enforcement…

Fact Sheets