kaal:claim:2714974-006

The SEC's 2004 hedge fund adviser registration rule failed in court because the agency lacked authority to define the term client, which the Investment Advisers Act had not otherwise defined, and the D.C. Circuit in Goldstein vacated the rule as arbitrary rulemaking.

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Because the term "client" had not otherwise been defined in the Investment Advisers Act, the SEC had no authority to determine the meaning of the term.
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Kaal and Oesterle, The History of Hedge Fund Regulation in the United States (2016), SEC Rules Requiring the Registration of Hedge Fund Managers, p. 9
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Kaal and Oesterle, The History of Hedge Fund Regulation in the United States (2016). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2714974

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failuresupport: evidencedfailure: Undefined statutory term defeats agency rulemakingfamily: definitional-ambiguitydynamic-regulationsecurities-law

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