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In an opinion filed today, Judge Marrero conditionally approved a $614 million insider trading settlement between the SEC and SAC Capital — the largest insider trading settlement ever (see our prior post).  The approval is contingent on a ruling from the Second Circuit that raises similar questions of whether and when it is appropriate for courts to approve SEC settlements in which the defendants neither admit nor deny wrongdoing. Judge Marrero seemed to indicate, however, his view that the practice may not be appropriate in all cases:…
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