Posted on Sep 8, 2020 in
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In SEC v. Quiros, 966 F.3d 1195 (July 20, 2020), the Eleventh Circuit held that the district court abused its discretion when it entered a bar order extinguishing non-parties’ claims, because entry of the order was not necessary to resolve the parties’ dispute. In 2016, the SEC filed a civil enforcement action against Ariel Quiros, and the district court appointed a receiver to take...