In re Petrobras Securities Litigation continues to produce interesting developments – this time on SLUSA preemption and Brazilian law.  On March 12, 2016, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York held that the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act (“SLUSA”) does not preempt claims asserted under foreign law and that Brazilian law requires a plaintiff to have actually realized loss on the securities transactions at issue.

The Supreme Court today refused to grant review of the Second Circuit’s restrictive insider-trading decision in United States v. Newman.  The Government, through the Solicitor General, had asked the Supreme Court to clarify the nature of the “personal benefit” that a tipper must receive in order to create liability for insider trading.  But the Supreme Court declined to take the case.

The Seventh Circuit has held that federal district courts do not have subject matter jurisdiction over challenges to ongoing SEC administrative enforcement proceedings where the challenger is already a party to those proceedings.  Instead, a party to a pending administrative proceeding must defend against the proceeding and then seek review