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Court doubts FERC jurisdiction to police NYMEX trades

Winston & Strawn LLP
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USA
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February 8 2013

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 preserved the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's exclusive jurisdiction over futures transactions on commodity

Natural gas commodity fraud convictions affirmed

Winston & Strawn LLP
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USA
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June 4 2012

On May 18th, the Fifth Circuit affirmed defendants' convictions and sentences for conspiring to submit false physical natural gas trade data to industry publications in order to manipulate the financial trade price for natural gas

Natural gas futures price manipulation case certified as a class action

Winston & Strawn LLP
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USA
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October 4 2010

On September 27th, the Federal District Court for the Southern District Court of New York certified as a class action plaintiffs' lawsuit alleging that Amaranth manipulated the prices of New York Mercantile Exchange natural gas futures contracts in violation of the Commodity Exchange Act

Process for hedging energy trades is not patentable

Winston & Strawn LLP
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USA
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July 12 2010

On June 28th, the Supreme Court held that a patent application for a claimed invention that explains how commodities buyers and sellers in the energy market can protect, or hedge, against the risk of price changes is not patent eligible

Reliance on unauthenticated and inadmissible evidence ends CFTC market manipulation case

Winston & Strawn LLP
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USA
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January 19 2010

On January 14th, the Fifth Circuit affirmed a trial court's entry of judgment as a matter of law in favor of a defendant whom the CFTC accused of attempting to manipulate the natural gas market and knowingly delivering false reports tending to affect the natural gas market price