Morgan Keegan lost its battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
In a forceful opinion issued last June, U.S. District Judge William Duffey Jr. in Atlanta granted a defense motion for summary judgment on the SEC’s claims that Morgan Keegan misled investors in $647 million worth of auction-rate securities as the $330 billion ARS market was entering a deep freeze three years ago.