On June 21, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. v. Arkansas Teacher Retirement System, No. 20-222 (2021), that courts may consider at the class certification stage the generic nature of alleged...more
6/22/2021
/ Arkansas Teacher Retirement System v Goldman Sachs Group ,
Basic v Levinson ,
Burden of Persuasion ,
Burden of Proof ,
Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Conflicts of Interest ,
Goldman Sachs ,
Investors ,
Presumption of Reliance ,
SCOTUS ,
Securities Exchange Act ,
Securities Litigation ,
Shareholders
Today, in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States held in Amgen Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds that a securities fraud plaintiff alleging fraud on the market need not establish the...more
2/27/2013
/ Amgen Inc. v Connecticut Retirement Plans ,
Burden of Proof ,
Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
False Statements ,
Fraud-on-the-Market ,
Insider Trading ,
Materiality ,
Pleadings ,
Rule 10b-5 ,
SCOTUS ,
Securities Fraud
This issue of Inside the Courts, Skadden's securities litigation newsletter, includes summaries and associated court opinions of selected noteworthy cases principally decided from July to November 2012. This edition addresses...more
1/7/2013
/ Annual Meeting ,
Auditors ,
Burden of Proof ,
CAFA ,
Class Action ,
Demand Futility ,
Derivatives ,
Directors ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Economic Loss Doctrine ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
Fiduciary Duty ,
Foreign Corporations ,
Fraud ,
Insider Trading ,
Investment Company Act of 1940 ,
Loss Causation ,
Materiality ,
Misrepresentation ,
Pleadings ,
PLSRA ,
RMBS ,
Scienter ,
Shareholders ,
Underwriting