USCA4 Appeal: 25-1892
Doc: 16
Filed: 10/15/2025
Pg: 87 of 97
C ONNECTICUT x Outlawing bucket shops, which are defined as, in relevant part, “office[s], store[s] or other place[s] wherein the proprietor or keeper thereof … shall conduct the business of making or offering to make contracts, agreements, trades or transactions respecting the purchase or sale or purchase and sale of any [ ] grain, provisions or other commodity … , wherein both parties thereto, or such proprietor or keeper, shall contemplate or intend that such contracts, agreements, trades or transactions shall be or may be closed, adjusted or settled according to, or upon the basis of, the public market quotations of prices made on any board of trade or exchange upon which the commodities … referred to in such contracts, agreements, trades or transactions are dealt in, and without a bona fide transaction on such board of trade or exchange .” Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 6345-6346 (1930). D ISTRICT OF C OLUMBIA x Outlawing “‘[b]ucketing’ or ‘bucket - shopping,’” which “shall mean,” in relevant part, “[t]he making of or offering to make any contract respecting the purchase or sale … of any … commodities wherein both parties thereto intend, or such keeper intends, that such contract shall be, or may be, terminated, closed, or settled according to or upon the basis of the public market quotations of prices made on any board of trade or exchange upon which said … commodities are dealt in and without a bona fide purchase or sale of the same .” D.C. Code tit. 6, §§ 158-159 (1929). F LORIDA x “[D]eclaring unlawful all the transactions conducted in and through a bucket shop,” which is defined “to be an office, store, or other place wherein the proprietor or keeper thereof … conducts the business of making or offering to make contracts, agreements, trades or transactions respecting the purchase or sale or purchase and sale of any … cotton, grain, provisions or other commodities … wherein both parties thereto, or said proprietor or keeper contemplated or intended that the contracts, agreements, trades or transactions shall be or may be closed, adjusted, or settled according to or on the basis of the market quotations or prices made on any board of trade or exchange upon
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