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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. Marc J. GABELLI and Bruce Alpert, Defendants-Appellees/Cross-Appellants.
    Nos. 10-3581-cv, 10-3628(XAP), 10-3760(XAP).
    United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
    May 3, 2013.
    Dominick V. Freda (Jacob H. Stillman, Hope Hall Augustini, on the brief), Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee.
    Lewis J. Liman (Kimberly C. Spiering, Katherine L. Wilson-Milne, David R. Lu-rie, on the brief), Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee/Cross-Appellant Gabelli.
    Kathleen N. Massey (Edward A. McDonald, Joshua I. Sherman, on the brief), Dechert LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant Alpert.
    Present: DEBRA ANN LIVINGSTON, DENNY CHIN, Circuit Judges, JED S. RAKOFF, District Judge.
    
      
       The Honorable Jed S. Rakoff, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation.
    
   SUMMARY ORDER

This case comes to us on remand from the Supreme Court. We presume the parties’ familiarity with the facts and procedural history, which we recount only to the extent necessary to explain our decision.

Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) alleges that Defendants-Appel-lees/Cross-Appellants Marc J. Gabelli and Bruce Alpert, while prohibiting most investors in their Gabelli Global Growth Fund from engaging in a form of short-term trading called “market timing,” secretly permitted one investor to market time the Fund in exchange for an investment in a hedge fund managed by Gabelli. Compl. ¶¶ 1, 20-21, 17, 31, 35-38, 42, 44-45. Because the market timing was alleged to have occurred between 1999 and August 2002, and the SEC’s action was not filed until April 2008, the district court, among other rulings, dismissed the SEC’s civil penalty claims as time barred by the five-year statute of limitations set forth in 28 U.S.C. § 2462. In Securities and Exchange Commission v. Gabelli, 653 F.3d 49 (2d Cir.2011), this Court, inter alia, reversed that dismissal, but the Supreme Court in turn reversed that part of this Court’s decision. See Gabelli v. Sec. & Exch. Comm’n, — U.S. -, 133 S.Ct. 1216, 185 L.Ed.2d 297 (2013). This reversal, however, does not affect this Court’s other holdings in its prior opinion. Therefore, this Court now affirms the district court’s dismissal of the SEC’s civil penalty claims under the Investment Advisers Act but otherwise adheres to its earlier opinion.

Accordingly, the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED in part and REVERSED in part, and the case is REMANDED for further proceedings consistent with this Order.