The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is in a pickle over its in-house judges.

In a series of cases filed since 2011, defendants targeted in SEC administrative enforcement proceedings have challenged the agency’s growing tendency to bring cases internally rather than in federal court. Now, thanks to the efforts of about a half-dozen enterprising lawyers in the white-collar securities defense bar, their complaints are finally starting to stick.

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