The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has turned to the New York Southern District Court with a rather unusual request – to consider an email sent by a defendant in a Forex fraud case as a Motion to Dismiss. Typically, such motions are the result of a work of counsel for the defendants and, so, they comply with certain formal standards. The case at hand, captioned U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Hartshorn (1:16-cv-09802), apparently requires a somewhat different approach that would reflect the peculiarities of an email sent by the defendant – Brett Hartshorn, to the Judge assigned ... (full story)