Wilfredo Felix v. Securities and Exchange Commission

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES WILFREDO FELIX, Petitioner, v. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, Respondent. PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI Petitioner Wilfredo Felix respectfully petitions for a writ of certiorari to review the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. QUESTION PRESENTED Whether Congress’s delegation of disciplinary authority under the Securities Exchange Act to private self-regulatory organizations permits a permanent occupational bar to become final through default procedures based on constructive notice, where the evidentiary record is created entirely within the private regulator, and subsequent review by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the courts is confined to that closed record, providing no forum to reopen the 1|P ag e