An experienced trial lawyer, Mr. Wayland has led the division's civil enforcement division.
That prompted the agency to undertake the civil enforcement action leading to the consent order.
Unlike civil enforcement, criminal enforcement raises a host of issues particular to corporate defendants.
In a civil enforcement action, the SEC charged Payton and Durant with insider trading.
"That includes education, compliance assistance, administrative and civil enforcement, and it includes criminal enforcement".
2. Courts are not authorized in civil enforcement proceedings to punish antitrust defendants.
But a spokesman, Kevin Mukri, noted that bank regulators can and do bring their own civil enforcement actions.
The collapse of Lehman seemed to be the most likely source of criminal prosecutions, or at least civil enforcement actions.
The S.E.C. does not prosecute criminal charges but only has the power to pursue civil enforcement actions.
The Times analyzed the two types of civil enforcement actions — judicial cases and administrative cases.
Civil enforcement against corporations is easy, at least conceptually speaking, because it is similar to any other civil litigation.
