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Some Things to Think About While We Await the Supreme Court’s Decision in Halliburton | The D&O Diary
The U.S Supreme Court did not issue its long-awaited decision in the Halliburton case yesterday and so it looks as if we will have to wait a little while longer to find out whether or not the Court will throw out the fraud on the market theory. The Court will for sure release its opinion […]
Behind major US case against shareholder suits, a tale of two professors | Reuters
The intellectual jousting match between Grundfest and Pritchard is no longer just academic. Any day now, in the case Halliburton Co v. Erica P. John Fund, the Supreme Court will decide the future of securities fraud class actions, litigation that has generated more than $80 billion in settlements and untold billions more in legal fees. […]
Supreme Court Could Transform Shareholder Lawsuits With Halliburton Case – Businessweek
The high court agreed on Friday to hear an appeal by Halliburton asking the high court to overturn a 1988 precedent that made it much easier for shareholders to band together to allege corporations have defrauded investors. The precedent, Basic v. Levinson, said that shareholders didn’t have to show that they had made investment decisions […]