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Blue Sky Laws: Defending State-Level Securities Violations
The Justice Insiders: The Administrative State is Not Your Friend - A Conversation with Professor Richard Epstein
Four Decision Points in SEC Securities Investigations
Business and Legal Issues Around Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
The "Compass Rose" Method for Corporate Witness Interviews
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SEC Whistleblower Program: What Employers Need to Know
While securities class action filings are on the rise within the First Circuit, the District of Massachusetts continues to apply a high degree of scrutiny to securities fraud allegations, including particularized facts...more
Most federal private securities litigation is brought under Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and Section 11 of the Securities Act. These two provisions are responsible for most of the big-ticket securities class actions that...more
On August 13, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit vacated a district court order granting class certification in a putative securities class action against an electric services company (the...more
Cornerstone Research recently published its 2025 midyear assessment of securities class action filings. Compared to the second half of 2024, securities class action filings in the first half of 2025 decreased slightly from...more
On August 1, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced (here) that it charged a Wisconsin resident and three limited liability companies that he owns and controls – Investors Capital LLC, Global Investors...more
On July 28, 2025, Judge Jessica G. L. Clarke of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York denied a motion for judgment on the pleadings to dismiss a claim under Section 20(a) of the Securities...more
On July 30, 2025, Judge Brian R. Martinotti of the United States District Court of the District of New Jersey granted a motion to dismiss a putative securities fraud class action against a drug manufacturing company (the...more
On July 16, 2025, the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York dismissed a scheme liability claim in an enforcement action brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against a company’s former...more
Our Securities Litigation Group examines two potential Supreme Court cases with important potential implications for defendants facing federal securities law claims....more
This is part one of a three-part series exploring the recent uptick in securities class action filings in the First Circuit and examining recent decisions issued by the District of Massachusetts. This post examines current...more
On June 24, 2025, Judge Aleta A. Trauger of the Middle District of Tennessee granted a motion to dismiss a putative securities class action brought against a discount retailer chain (the “Company”) and certain of its...more
On June 6, 2025, Judge Richard Seeborg of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted without prejudice a motion to dismiss a putative securities fraud class action against a developer of...more
On June 3, 2025, Judge Jacqueline S. Corley of the Northern District of California granted in part a motion to dismiss a putative securities class action brought against a medical devices company (the “Company”), its CEO, and...more
On April 18, 2025, Judge André Birotte Jr. of the Central District of California granted a motion to dismiss a putative class action asserting claims under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the...more
On March 31, 2025, Judge Arun Subramanian of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York denied a motion to dismiss a putative securities class action against a cosmetics company (the “Company”),...more
On February 3, 2025, in In re Shanda Games Limited Securities Litigation, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, allowed a putative investor class to proceed with securities fraud claims under...more
On March 24, 2025, Judge Rita F. Lin of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted in part and denied in part a motion to dismiss a putative class action against a technology company (the...more
On February 26, 2025, Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald of the United States District Court for the Central District of California granted a motion to dismiss a putative class action against a producer of plant-based meat...more
On February 26, 2025, Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas, sitting by designation in the District Court for the District of Delaware, granted a motion for summary judgment in a securities action brought by an investment firm...more
On January 16, 2025, Judge Trina L. Thompson of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted a motion to dismiss a securities action asserting claims under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the...more
On January 23, 2025, Judge James C. Dever III of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina dismissed a putative securities class action against an auto parts retailer (the “Company”) and...more
Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court heard oral argument in Facebook, Inc. v. Amalgamated Bank (S. Ct. Case No. 22-15077). As presented by Facebook (now known as Meta Platforms, Inc.), the question for the court is as...more
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in two cases concerning the pleading standard in securities fraud class actions....more
On April 12, 2024, the Supreme Court in Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. v. Moab Partners, L.P., unanimously held that pure omissions cannot form the basis of a securities fraud claim under Rule 10b-5(b) of the Securities...more
On April 12, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. v. Moab Partners, L.P., in a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, that “pure omissions” made in required disclosures do not...more