United States Eleventh Circuit

In an insider trading case, brought under section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. section 78j(b), and SEC Rule 10b-5, 17 C.F.R. section 240.10b-5, the district court committed prejudicial error in its instruction on the elements of the misappropriation theory of liability.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/16/2003
• Published 04/16/2003

Judges

• TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT and COX, Circuit Judges, and HANCOCK, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Robert R. Hearn,Morris Weinberg, Jr., Zuckerman, Spaeder, Taylor & Evans, Tampa, FL, Carl Francis Schoeppl, Stuart A. Davidson, Schoeppl, Burke & Kayton, P.A., Boca Raton, FL, Andrew H. Kayton, Kluger, Peretz, Kaplan & Berlin, P.A., Miami, FL, for Defendants-Appellants., Michael A. Conley, Randall W. Quinn, S.E.C., Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellee.