Conflict Minerals: SEC Argues Its Conflict Minerals Rule Survives First Amendment Scrutiny

Dec 12, 2014 | Yin Wilczek, Bloomberg BNA
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The Securities and Exchange Commission Dec. 8 told a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that it should uphold the entirety of the agency's conflict minerals rule.

The D.C. Circuit's July en banc ruling in American Meat Institute v. Dep't of Agriculture, 746 F.3d 1065, 2014 BL 86913 (D.C. Cir. 2014), “makes clear that the conflict minerals disclosure is consistent with the First Amendment,” the SEC said in a filing.