Supreme Court of the United States, 1936

Bracken v. Securities & Exchange Comm'n

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided October 12, 1936

299 U.S. 504; 57 S. Ct. 18; 81 L. Ed. 374; 1 SEC Jud. Dec. 262; 1936 U.S. LEXIS 1058 (United States Reports)

Counsel

Mr. Abraham M. Lowenthal for petitioners., Solicitor General Reed and Mr. John J. Burns for respondent.

Cases that cite this one

22 later published cases cite this decision.

Rivers v. Miller (5th Cir. 1940)
In re the Comprehensive Investigation of the School District of Newark (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div. 1994)
Federal Trade Commission v. Scientific Living, Inc. (District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania 1957)
Acheson, Secretary of State v. Droesse (D.C. Cir. 1952)
Acheson v. Droesse (D.C. Cir. 1952)
Bowles v. Baer (7th Cir. 1944)
Brown v. Baer (District Court, N.D. Illinois 1943)
Boehm v. United States (8th Cir. 1941)
Edwards v. United States (10th Cir. 1940)
Woolley v. United States (9th Cir. 1938)
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Lawson (District Court, D. Maryland 1938)
State Ex Rel. Railroad & Warehouse Commission v. Mees (Minn. 1951)
In re Burt, 2006-Ca-00328 (8-6-2007) (Ohio Ct. App. 2007)
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Arthur Young & Company (D.C. Cir. 1978)
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Kaplan (District Court, E.D. New York 1975)
In re Four Seasons Securities Laws Litigation (United States District Court, Oklahoma Western 1972)
D. W. Horsley, Jr. v. R. W. Alvis, Warden, Ohio State Penitentiary (6th Cir. 1960)
State v. Cimpritz (Ohio 1953)
United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. (Supreme Court of the United States 1950)
Edwards v. United States (Supreme Court of the United States 1941)
Leader v. Apex Hosiery Co. (Supreme Court of the United States 1937)
Woodring v. Clarksburg-Columbus Short Route Bridge Co. (Supreme Court of the United States 1937)

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Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam:

The petition for writ of certiorari in this case is granted. The decree of the Circuit Court of Appeals is reversed and the cause is remanded to the District Court with directions to vacate its decree and to dismiss the proceeding upon the ground that the cause is moot. Brownlow v. Schwartz, 261 U. S. 216; Alejandrino v. Quezon, 271 U. S. 528, 535, 536; C. M. Patten & Co. v. United States, 289 U. S. 705; First Union Trust & Savings Bank v. Consumers Co., 290 U. S. 585.

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