This commentary previews an upcoming Supreme Court case, Amgen v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, in which the Court will decide whether plaintiffs in securities fraud class actions must prove materiality at the class certification stage, or if that inquiry is more appropriately left to later stages of litigation. The case requires the Court to resolve a circuit split on this issue, and will have far-reaching implications for the future of securities fraud litigation
The current materiality standard for federal securities fraud is a mid-twentieth-century construct t...
On March 5, 2014, the Supreme Court heard argument in one of the most important securities law cases...
In any private action or enforcement proceeding based on SEC Rule 10b-5 the plaintiff, including th...
This commentary previews an upcoming Supreme Court case, Amgen v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and T...
The Supreme Court has reaffirmed the fraud on the market presumption of reliance, facilitating lar...
This commentary previews the upcoming Supreme Court case Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton Co....
This article explores a wave of recent federal court decisions addressing the applicability of the ...
The class action device is vital to deterring securities fraud and remedying its victims, who almost...
In November 2013, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in the Halliburton litigation to reconsider, ...
With Amgen, the Supreme Court’s majority once again holds that inquiry into the alleged market impac...
As we have shown in a series of prior Articles, and as scholars have accepted since, class actions a...
This commentary previews an upcoming Supreme Court case, Chadbourne & Parke LLP v. Troice, in which ...
In Halliburton Co. v. Erica P. John Fund, Inc. (Halliburton II), the United States Supreme Court rea...
In its recent Halliburton decision, the Supreme Court focused on the role of price distortion in me...
Securities class actions involve contested pretrial hearings to determine the proper class of plaint...
The current materiality standard for federal securities fraud is a mid-twentieth-century construct t...
On March 5, 2014, the Supreme Court heard argument in one of the most important securities law cases...
In any private action or enforcement proceeding based on SEC Rule 10b-5 the plaintiff, including th...
This commentary previews an upcoming Supreme Court case, Amgen v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and T...
The Supreme Court has reaffirmed the fraud on the market presumption of reliance, facilitating lar...
This commentary previews the upcoming Supreme Court case Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton Co....
This article explores a wave of recent federal court decisions addressing the applicability of the ...
The class action device is vital to deterring securities fraud and remedying its victims, who almost...
In November 2013, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in the Halliburton litigation to reconsider, ...
With Amgen, the Supreme Court’s majority once again holds that inquiry into the alleged market impac...
As we have shown in a series of prior Articles, and as scholars have accepted since, class actions a...
This commentary previews an upcoming Supreme Court case, Chadbourne & Parke LLP v. Troice, in which ...
In Halliburton Co. v. Erica P. John Fund, Inc. (Halliburton II), the United States Supreme Court rea...
In its recent Halliburton decision, the Supreme Court focused on the role of price distortion in me...
Securities class actions involve contested pretrial hearings to determine the proper class of plaint...
The current materiality standard for federal securities fraud is a mid-twentieth-century construct t...
On March 5, 2014, the Supreme Court heard argument in one of the most important securities law cases...
In any private action or enforcement proceeding based on SEC Rule 10b-5 the plaintiff, including th...