Ending Excessive Punishments 

The SEC pursued $8,826 in prejudgment interest from relief defendant Jamie Quick, who was never accused of any wrongdoing, effectively imposing a "due process tax" for exercising her right to defend herself in court.

The SEC targeted JD Jordan for alleged technical registration violations despite his good-faith reliance on a legal opinion letter from qualified counsel, highlighting how the agency's performance metrics incentivize pursuing easy cases over substantive ones.

After 40 years of faithful client service, 74-year-old Paul Spitzer faces financial ruin after the SEC's 18-month silence transformed a limited supervisory settlement into a de facto lifetime industry bar through administrative inaction.

Joseph Mona, a retired grandfather, saw his entire savings and the financial security of his family destroyed after he inadvertently ran afoul of Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, an antiquated law that has become a cash cow for predatory lawyers acting like “deputy SEC attorneys.”

After pursuing Eric Cannon in federal court for nine years over non-fraud registration violations, the SEC initiated a follow-on administrative proceeding seeking to permanently bar him from the financial industry—a "double jeopardy" that threatens his 30-year career despite no allegations of fraud or investor harm.

Three sales agents have spent almost ten years over a registration violation -all because the SEC is trying to erode a past ruling that life settlement products are not securities under Howey, highlighting how the agency forum-shops rejected legal theories to different courts until finding a judge who will rule in its favor.

Joseph Collins, a Los Angeles entrepreneur, faced a ruinous $1.35 million SEC demand over a self-reported technical violation with no fraud or investor harm, until ICAN secured a complete victory rejecting the SEC's disgorgement attempt and preserving key limits on the agency's powers.