( July 31, 2025, 8:20 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a respondent brief to an investment fund’s petition for a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court, saying it will take no position on the investment fund’s request for the Supreme Court to determine whether a federal court overseeing an equity receivership can bar ongoing and future litigation against nonreceivership third parties after a federal appellate court barred such litigation against an escrow company and law firm that were third-parties to a Ponzi scheme....