FIRM OVERVIEW

Stumpp & Bond, LLP primarily engages in a commercial litigation practice, and has developed a particular expertise in matters involving commodity futures, securities, options, and derivatives. The partners have more than 40 years of combined experience in trials and appeals before all relevant federal and state courts, as well as arbitration forums and administrative agencies -- and have represented clients in more than 100 investment, employment, and commercial proceedings, and more than 100 regulatory investigations and proceedings.

The firm successfully represented the petitioners before the United States Supreme Court in Dunn v. CFTC , 519 U.S. 465 (1997), reversing 58 F.3d 50 (2d Cir. 1995), and unanimously holding that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission lacks jurisdiction over off-exchange foreign currency options (subsequently modified by enactment of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000).

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Oyez: Dunn v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission