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Court Dismisses SEC vs Mark Cuban Suit

By Mark H. Astarita, Esq.

On Friday, the federal district court judge in Texas granted Mark Cuban's motion to dismiss the insider trading charges against him. I have been blogging about the case since it's inception (the posts and analysis are available here).I am still digesting the opinion, which actually rejects a number of Mr. Cuban's legal arguments, but in the end, agrees with him. I will post a more detailed analysis as soon as my own trial schedule allows, but the short version is that the Court, assuming the SEC's allegations to be true, found that those allegations were not enough. While there may have been an agreement to keep the information confidential, there was no agreement not to trade on the information.Contrary to the posts of many on the Internet, it is not a total win...continue to full post

Full post as published by SECLaw.com on July 20, 2009 (boomark / email).