Court Opinion

ID: 9813192
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 22:57:58.85004+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:28:07.633234
License: Public Domain

WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge,
concurring in part and concurring in the judgment:
I concur in Parts I, III and IV of Judge Motz’s opinion, and concur in the result with respect to Part II. I write separately because I believe that the language of the CEA itself, read in the most natural manner, authorizes the CFTC to regulate the transactions at issue in this case. Because the legislative history does not clearly suggest that transactions such as the ones at issue in this case were meant to be exempted from CFTC jurisdiction, there is no need to address a potential conflict between text and legislative history. I therefore concur in the result reached by Part II of the majority opinion.