Search for: "Howey v. State" Results 1 - 20 of 136
Sorted by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
5 Oct 2020, 10:50 am by Daniel Nathan
In a closely-watched cryptocurrency case, on September 30, the Southern District of New York ruled in favor of the SEC in SEC v. [read post]
27 Dec 2019, 12:29 pm by John Jascob
The appeals court explained that the Howey opinion set forth a test for determining if something is an investment contract and, thus, a security, but that Florida courts had used Howey in a logically untenable manner beyond this specific purpose (Githler v. [read post]
22 Feb 2017, 8:22 am by Doug Cornelius
Federal law uses some variation of the factors stated in S.E.C. v. [read post]
13 May 2015, 8:54 am by John Jascob
In the second case, the State of Texas sought an injunction and other relief for allegations Life Partners committed fraud when selling securities. [read post]
14 Oct 2021, 2:36 pm by Sheila R. Carroll
  The SEC and its state counterparts presently apply the Howey[1]/Forman[2] tests set down by the U.S. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 5:00 am by John Jascob
As the promissory notes did not meet either the risk-capital or the Howey test for a security, the trial court properly set aside two criminal charges that the defendant used false statements in the sale of a security (People v. [read post]
9 Nov 2021, 6:20 am by John Jascob
In each of these cases, the threshold issue is whether the digital asset or token is a security, a question that goes back to Congress’s definition of “security” in the 1930s, the Supreme Court’s Howey decision in the 1940s, and the Court’s Reves v. [read post]
11 Aug 2023, 12:01 pm by Unknown
Said the court: “By stating that ‘transaction[s]’ and ‘scheme[s]’—and not just ‘contract[s]’—qualify as investment contracts, the Supreme Court made clear in Howey that Congress did not intend the term to apply only where transacting parties had drawn up a technically valid written or oral contract under state law” (citations omitted).One can see a progression in crypto companies’ arguments in response to… [read post]
18 Feb 2021, 6:30 am by John Jascob
Coinseed sold tokens in 2018 to raise money for a mobile app that allows users to round up everyday purchases made on their linked credit and debit cards and invest those round-ups in a choice of virtual currencies (SEC v. [read post]