kaal:claim:2998097-002
The 2004 registration rule failed in court because the term client was not defined in the Investment Advisers Act, leaving the SEC without authority to fix its meaning, and the D.C. Circuit vacated the rule in Goldstein 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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failuresupport: arguedfailure: Undefined statutory term defeats agency rulemakingfamily: definitional-ambiguitysecurities-lawprivate-fundsdynamic-regulation
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