Mealey's (October 10, 2018, 2:12 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — An investment banker’s sending of two emails to prospective investors was done with the requisite scienter in violation of federal securities laws, and the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling holding him liable for disseminating those false and misleading emails is in line with the U.S. Supreme Court’s holding in Janus Capital Group, Inc. v. First Derivative Traders, the Securities and Exchange Commission argues in an Oct. 5 respondent’s merits brief filed in the Supreme Court (Francis V. Lorenzo v. Securities and Exchange Commission, No. 17-1077, U.S. Sup.)....