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A class action is a type of legal action where a representative individual or group of individuals can bring a claim on behalf of a larger group or class who share a common legal interest.
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Fifth Circuit Securities Litigation Quarterly: Third Quarter 2024

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Welcome to the Q3 2024 edition of A&O Shearman’s Fifth Circuit Securities Litigation Quarterly. As public companies and financial institutions continue to migrate to Texas, our Texas-based securities litigation team continues...more

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Eastern District Of New York Grants In Part And Denies In Part Motion To Dismiss Securities Class Action Against Online Clothing...

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On September 25, 2024, Judge Orelia E. Merchant of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York granted in part and denied in part a motion to dismiss a putative securities class action against an...more

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Considerations for Blow Provisions in Securities Class Action Settlements

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Securities class action settlements often include what is commonly referred to as a “blow provision”—a provision designed to give defendants the option to terminate the settlement agreement if a specified threshold of...more

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Blockchain+ Bi-Weekly: August 2024 #2

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As Congress is on its August recess, litigation over digital asset issues continued with major developments in the Yuga Labs trademark case and the SEC cases against Kraken and Consensys. While these matters all involve...more

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Securities Class Action Filings 2024 Midyear Assessment - Non-U.S. Core Federal Filings

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This is an excerpt from Securities Class Action Filings 2024 Midyear Assessment - This index tracks the number of core federal filings against foreign issuers (i.e., companies headquartered outside the United States)...more

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Securities Class Action Filings: 2024 Midyear Assessment - Summary of Trend Filings

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This is an excerpt from Securities Class Action Filings 2024 Midyear Assessment - This figure highlights recent trend categories that have appeared in core filing activity. See the Glossary for definitions of each trend...more

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Securities Class Action Filings: 2024 Midyear Assessment

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The number of securities class action filings increased in the first half of 2024 relative to the second half of 2023, according to a report released today by Cornerstone Research and the Stanford Law School Securities Class...more

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Southern District Of New York Grants Motion To Dismiss Putative Securities Class Action Against Cannabis Company For Failure To...

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On July 17, 2024, Judge Paul A. Engelmayer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a motion to dismiss a putative securities class action against a cannabis company and three of its officers....more

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Blockchain+ Bi-Weekly: June 2024

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Our last update included a whirlwind of activities, with the surprisingly bipartisan House of Representatives vote on FIT 21 and the SEC’s approval of certain Ether spot ETF rule change proposals coming in quick succession....more

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How to Minimize Risk in the Current Litigation Environment

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This month's SPAC Notebook follows up on our recent discussion of risk mitigation and due diligence tips for foreign companies going public in the US. We want to share more information on the current litigation environment...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Inside the Courts – An Update From Skadden Securities Litigators - February 2024

Securities Class Actions Show No Signs of Slowing in 2024 - Key Points - While the volume of securities class actions filings has remained consistently elevated over the past several years, the composition of the class...more

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Ontario’s Top Court Affirms Evidentiary Principles on Motions for Leave to Commence a Secondary Market Misrepresentation Action

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In Drywall Acoustic Lathing and Insulation (Pension Fund, Local 675) v. Barrick Gold Corporation, 2024 ONCA 105, the Ontario Court of Appeal affirmed the lower court’s decision denying in part the motion for leave to commence...more

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Securities Class Action Filings 2023 Year in Review: Combined Federal and State Filing Activity

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The number of filings increased slightly despite a large decline in federal Section 11 and state 1933 Act filings....more

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Securities Class Action Filings 2023 Year in Review: Executive Summary

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Overall filing volume increased slightly in 2023 to 215 filings from 208 in 2022. The number of “core” filings—those excluding M&A filings—also increased slightly. The size of core filings when measured by Maximum Dollar Loss...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

[Webinar] Recent Trends In Securities Class Actions - October 24th, 10:00 am - 10:45 am PT

This presentation will review recent trends surrounding securities class action cases, including the impact on public companies, the industries being targeted the most, the factors most likely to trigger a lawsuit, recent...more

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Securities Class Action Trend Cases

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From SPACs to COVID-19, several trends have appeared in core filing activity in recent years. The data below is from Securities Class Action Filings—2023 Midyear Assessment....more

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2022 Year in Review: Securities Litigation Against Life Sciences Companies

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We are proud to present our seventh annual Securities Litigation Year in Review publication, in which we analyze data for securities class actions filed nationally against publicly traded pharmaceutical, biotechnology,...more

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SPAC 2021 Year-End Review and 2022 Preview: Tailwinds, Headwinds, and Regulatory Landscape

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The SPAC market has withstood many challenges throughout 2021, including softening of the private investment in public equity (PIPE) market for a majority of the year after a very robust first quarter for initial business...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Securities Litigation Update: Divided Ninth Circuit Permits Direct-Listing Investors to Assert Securities Act Claims, Despite...

On September 20, 2021, in Pirani v. Slack Technologies, Inc., a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that investors who purchase stock in a “direct listing”—in which pre-existing shares are...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Securities Litigation Update: Courts of Appeals Weigh in on American Pipe Tolling and the Affiliated Ute Presumption of Reliance

The Third Circuit extended American Pipe tolling to the period before a decision on class-certification, opening a new avenue for potential class members to assert otherwise untimely individual securities claims.  The Ninth...more

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Class Action Lawsuit Dismissed: Commercial Division Finds Company’s Alleged Misrepresentations and Omissions During Stock Sale...

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Many of us have previously heard the expression that there is a fine line between fact and fiction.  In securities law that holds especially true where companies that risk walking the “fine line” in their registration...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Securities and Other Shareholder Litigation in the Wake of COVID-19

The current bear market began only a month ago and the securities plaintiffs’ bar wasted no time bringing its first set of actions. The stock market decline caused by COVID-19 has led to economic conditions this country has...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Federal Securities Litigation and Regulation: A Periodic Review and Predictions for the Remainder of 2019

While the past year, or even eighteen months, was short on landmark federal securities law decisions, there was significant activity on the part of private securities litigants. In 2018, plaintiffs filed 403 new federal...more

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