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Northern District Of California Dismisses Putative Securities Class Action Against Grocery Delivery Company For Failure To...

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On May 9, 2025, Judge Edward J. Davila of the Northern District of California granted a motion to dismiss a purported securities class action against a grocery delivery company (the “Company”), certain of its officers and...more

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U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Consequential Case Concerning Public Companies’ Risk-factor Disclosures

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The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled argument for November 6, 2024 in an important case involving risk-factor disclosures of public companies. At issue is whether a company’s risk disclosures can be treated as false or...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Securities Enforcement Update: January 1, 2024

The Nutter Securities Enforcement Update is a periodic summary of noteworthy recent securities enforcement activity, settlements, decisions, and charges....more

A&O Shearman

Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal Of Exchange Act Claims Against Acquired Public Company, Holding That Shareholders Of An M&A...

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On September 30, 2022, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a decision of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissing a putative securities fraud...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

SEC Reopens Comments on Compensation Clawbacks

In 2015 the SEC proposed rules to implement Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank which added Section 10D to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Section 10D requires the SEC to adopt rules directing the national securities exchanges...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

SEC Enforcement Activity – A Reminder Regarding the “Equal or Greater Prominence” Presentation Requirement of Item 10(e)

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At the end of last year, in an enforcement action brought by the Division of Enforcement of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against ADT Inc. (ADT), reporting companies were reminded that the SEC continues to...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Hypothetical Risk Factors Pose a Real Risk

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On July 24, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") announced charges against Facebook Inc. ("Facebook") for making misleading statements and risk factor disclosures regarding the misuse of Facebook user data...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

Shareholder Files Derivative Action against Facebook Directors for Insider Trading

In a wide ranging derivative action, a Facebook shareholder has filed a 193 page complaint in the Delaware Court of Chancery alleging three Facebook directors sold a total of $1.5 billion of stock while in possession of...more

Carlton Fields

Emulex Cert Dismissed: Supreme Court Passes on Opportunity to Curtail Federal Court Merger Litigation

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Emulex Corp. v. Varjabedian, No. 18-459 (U.S. Apr. 23, 2019) - On April 23, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a writ of certiorari that could have decided whether investors may sue public companies alleged to have...more

Sullivan & Worcester

Filed v. Furnished, What’s the Difference?

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When disclosing information in a filing with the SEC, it is important to know whether such disclosure and any related exhibits should be "filed" or "furnished". To non-lawyers, this may seem like semantics or another...more

Mintz - Securities Litigation Viewpoints

Five Advantages to Section 18 – A New Weapon for Institutions

Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act, while seldom used in the past, has been increasingly used by institutional investors in suits against banks and other entities. The advantages of Section 18 are as follows...more

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