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Inside the Courts – May 2025

Key Points - - The SEC’s Crypto Task Force acknowledges past hostility toward digital assets and aims to create more sensible regulations. - Tokenized securities face complex regulatory challenges, including compliance...more

Inside the Courts – An Update From Skadden Securities Litigators - February 2025

Key Points - - In 2024, securities litigation remained consistent with historical averages, with a slight increase in core filings and cases related to COVID-19 and artificial intelligence. - The U.S. Supreme Court had an...more

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

Spotlight - Macquarie Ruling Raises the Bar for Securities Fraud Claims - Key Points - - On April 12, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed and vacated the Second Circuit’s decision in Macquarie...more

Expert Allegations Could Become More Frequent in Securities Fraud Complaints and Possibly Erode Pleading Standards

Key Points - - A divided Ninth Circuit panel held that a shareholder plaintiff could rely on an expert’s after-the-fact analysis of public information to allege that a company’s public statements were false or misleading...more

Inside the Courts – An Update From Skadden Securities Litigators - September 2023

Two Sides of the Same Coin: Analyzing the Recent Ripple and Terraform Decisions - Key Points - - In July 2023, Judges Torres and Rakoff in the Southern District of New York issued rulings on whether digital asset sales...more

Trends in Forum Selection Provisions, Merger Objection Class Actions and SPACs Continue To Shape Securities Litigation

In the first nine months of 2022, plaintiffs filed 157 securities class action lawsuits, according to Cornerstone Research — a figure only slightly lower than the 162 filings in the same period in 2021. Looking behind the...more

Inside the Courts – An Update From Skadden Securities Litigators - December 2022

Cornerstone Research reports that during the first six months of 2022, plaintiffs filed 110 securities class actions, a pace that is generally in line — 2.8% higher — with what we saw in the second half of 2021. Looking...more

Inside the Courts – An Update From Skadden Securities Litigators - May 2022

This quarter’s issue includes summaries and associated court opinions of selected cases principally decided between February and April 2022. Cryptocurrency Derivative Litigation Fiduciary Duties – Bylaws Material...more

California Court of Appeal Upholds Federal Forum Provision

In the first published decision of a court of appeal outside Delaware, on April 28, 2022, the California Court of Appeal in Wong v. Restoration Robotics, Case No. A161489, affirmed the trial court’s decision to enforce a...more

Inside the Courts – An Update From Skadden Securities Litigators - March 2022

Class Certification - Central District of California Denies Class Certification in Securities Fraud Action Concerning Company’s Purchase of ADRs - Stoyas v. Toshiba Corp., No. 2:15-cv-04194 (C.D. Cal. Jan. 7, 2022) -...more

Inside the Courts – An Update From Skadden Securities Litigators

This quarter’s issue includes summaries and associated court opinions of selected cases principally decided between July and October 2020. Class Certification - Cryptocurrency – Definition of a Security - Derivative...more

Within Three Months, a Second California State Court Enforces a Federal Forum Charter Provision for Securities Act Claims

A California state court dismissed a putative securities fraud class action against Uber, as well as certain individuals and underwriters, on the grounds of inconvenient forum, holding that the federal forum selection...more

California Court Upholds Exclusive Federal Forum Charter Provision

On September 1, 2020, Judge Marie S. Weiner of the San Mateo County, California Superior Court held that an exclusive federal forum provision was enforceable under California law. See Wong v. Restoration Robotics, Inc., No....more

Ninth Circuit Holds That Courts Should Scrutinize Economic Plausibility of Securities Fraud Complaints in Evaluating Scienter

On June 10, 2020, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a putative securities fraud class action in a potentially significant decision for securities defendants, particularly those in the pharmaceutical, biotech and...more

Ninth Circuit Addresses Use of Doctrines of Judicial Notice and Incorporation by Reference at Pleading Stage in Securities Cases

In the Ninth Circuit, defendants typically have two tools available to ask a court to consider in connection with a motion to dismiss information outside the four corners of a complaint. First, a defendant may file a request...more

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