Recent Supreme Court decisions show a strong and continued rebalancing of power in the administrative state that has been years in the making. This update outlines what it means for the f...
On May 19, 2022, the Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a case claiming securities fraud in the life sciences space, confirming that disappointing results are insufficient to plead fraud...
On May 18, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that the SEC’s administrative proceedings are unconstitutional on three independent grounds. The decision could potenti...
The Ninth Circuit last week issued a decision confirming that companies working through product-specific issues do not need to provide investors with “real-time updates” about every a...
The Supreme Court Holds that American Pipe Tolling Does Not Apply to Subsequent Class Actions; Clarifies that Five-Year Period for Section 10(b) Claims Is a Statute of Repose
On June 11,...
On March 20, 2018, the Supreme Court decided Cyan, Inc. v. Beaver County Employees Retirement Fund (“Cyan”), ruling unanimously that, under the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards...
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On June 20, 2013, the Supreme Court decided a case regarding waivers of class arbitration that could have potentially wide-ranging implications in antitrust and other cases. See American ...
On March 27, 2013, the Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Scalia, held that putative antitrust class plaintiffs must affirmatively establish that damages are capable of measurement o...
As anyone who has been near a television screen, a newspaper or the Internet this past week knows, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (the “Act”) was enacted under enorm...
