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Browse: Home / 2020 / December / 14 / U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Take Up Securities Suit Class Certification Issues | The D&O Diary

U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Take Up Securities Suit Class Certification Issues | The D&O Diary

By Securities Docket on December 14, 2020, 2:41 pm

In the same December 11, 2020 Order in which it rejected the bid by the Texas Attorney General to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential election, the U.S. Supreme Court also agreed to take up a case involving the effort of Goldman Sachs to overturn the certification of a class in the long-running securities lawsuit. The case relates to the bank’s alleged conflicts of interest in structuring collateralized debt obligation securities before the global financial crisis. The case will require the Court to address important questions pertaining to the ability of securities lawsuit defendants opposing class certification to attempt to rebut the presumption of reliance and the extent to which the defendants in opposing class certification can rely on matter that is also relevant to merits-related issues such as materiality.

Source: U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Take Up Securities Suit Class Certification Issues | The D&O Diary

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