Court Failed To Consider Affirmative Defense In CFTC Order Dispute, Man Argues

(August 11, 2022, 4:43 PM EDT) -- ATLANTA — A federal district court erred in granting summary judgment in favor of government prosecutors in a lawsuit seeking an order requiring a man to pay nearly $3.9 million owed as part of a U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) administrative order against the man on fraud and insider trading claims because the man provided the court with an affirmative defense that established a genuine issue of material fact, the man argues in a July 27 appellant brief filed in the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals....