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Court Watch: Certiorari Petitions Raise Questions on Materiality and Tracing

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Our Securities Litigation Group examines two potential Supreme Court cases with important potential implications for defendants facing federal securities law claims....more

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United States Supreme Court Holds That Section 11 Plaintiffs Must Purchase Securities Issued Under the Registration Statement They...

In Slack Technologies, LLC v. Pirani, No. 22-200, 2023 U.S. LEXIS 2301 (U.S. June 1, 2023), the Supreme Court of the United States (Gorsuch, J.) held that Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”), 15...more

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The Supreme Court Update - December 13, 2022

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Today, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in three cases: Slack Technologies, LLC v. Pirani, No. 22-200: This case presents an issue of federal securities law. After the messaging software company,...more

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SCOTUS Grants Certiorari to Decide Whether Automatic Discovery Stay Applies to Securities Act Cases in State Court

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SCOTUS Grants Certiorari to Decide Whether Automatic Discovery Stay Applies to Securities Act Cases in State Court; Delaware Court of Chancery Dismisses Stockholder Suit Against FedEx for Failure to Make Pre-Litigation...more

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Supreme Court To Decide Whether Automatic Discovery Stay Applies To Securities Act Cases In State Court

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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the automatic discovery stay established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 applies to cases under the Securities Act of 1933 when they are brought in...more

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Can the SEC Eradicate The Distinction Between Primary and Secondary Liability?

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“The distinction between primary and secondary liability matters...For decades...the SEC has tried to erase that distinction...” Lorenzo v. SEC, 872 F. 3d 578, 601 (D.C. Cir. 2017) (Kavenaugh, Circuit Judge, dissenting). ...more

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The U.S. Supreme Court Grants Class Defendants’ Petition For Certiorari In Ninth Circuit American Pipe Tolling Case (Resh V. China...

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As we discussed at length last June [Ninth Circuit extends tolling doctrine to allow successive class actions, subject only to preclusion and “comity” defenses], the Ninth Circuit in Resh v. China Agritech, Inc., 857 F.3d...more

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Supreme Court to Determine whether State Courts Have Jurisdiction to Adjudicate Covered Class Actions under the Securities Act of...

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On June 27, 2017, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Cyan Inc. v. Beaver County Employees Retirement Fund,[1] to decide whether the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1998 (SLUSA) bars plaintiffs from filing any covered...more

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Supreme Court to Resolve Split on Removing Securities Act Claims to Federal Court

The Supreme Court granted the petition for certiorari in Cyan, Inc. v. Beaver Cty. Emps. Ret. Fund, No. 15-1439 (U.S. May 24, 2016) yesterday, setting the stage for the resolution of a long-standing division among federal...more

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The Supreme Court - June 26, 2017

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The Supreme Court of the United States issued decisions in five cases today: California Public Employees’ Retirement System v. ANZ Securities, Inc., No. 16-373: Lehman Brothers’ collapse led to a number of securities...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Scrutinizes Three Proposed Standards for Determining Section 11 Liability for Statements of Opinion or Belief

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On Monday, November 3, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court held oral argument in Omnicare, Inc. v. Laborers District Council Construction Industry Pension Fund, No. 13-435. As noted in our previous client alert regarding this case,...more

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