Question juridique clé
Whether the SEC's December 2001 response violated the treaty requirement that requests come through the US central authority.
Solution extraite
The response was only a clarification of the original request, not a new request; any routing defect was minor and did not invalidate the procedure.
Motifs extraits
The US Department of Justice had delegated the matter to the SEC, and the clarification merely specified the original seizure request covering accounts of persons involved in the case.