On October 15, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued an opinion in In re Overstock Securities Litigation affirming the District of Utah’s dismissal of putative class action claims under the...more
On April 4, 2025, Judge Gordon P. Gallagher of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado dismissed with prejudice a putative class action asserting claims under the Securities Act of 1933 and the...more
On April 11, 2025, Judge Brian M. Cogan 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 class action alleging violations of Sections...more
On March 31, 2025, Judge Arun Subramanian of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York denied a motion to dismiss a putative securities class action against a cosmetics company (the “Company”),...more
On February 3, 2025, in In re Shanda Games Limited Securities Litigation, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, allowed a putative investor class to proceed with securities fraud claims under...more
Welcome to our ninth annual report on US securities class actions filed against publicly traded life sciences companies, which include pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and healthcare companies....more
On February 26, 2025, Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald of the United States District Court for the Central District of California granted a motion to dismiss a putative class action against a producer of plant-based meat...more
Cornerstone Research recently issued its 2024 Year in Review report examining recent trends in securities class action filings. For the second year in a row, the number of securities class action filings saw an uptick,...more
A Delaware court recently found for the policyholders in determining that a directors and officers (D&O) liability policy covered the settlement of an underlying action alleging violations of the Securities Exchange Act of...more
On January 16, 2025, Judge Trina L. Thompson of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted a motion to dismiss a securities action asserting claims under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the...more
On January 23, 2025, Judge James C. Dever III of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina dismissed a putative securities class action against an auto parts retailer (the “Company”) and...more
On December 12, 2024, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a motion to dismiss a putative securities class action asserting claims under Sections 10(b) and...more
On December 17, 2024, Judge Vince Chhabria of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted a renewed motion for class certification in a securities action against a majority shareholder of...more
Highlight the steady pace of filings for artificial intelligence-related securities class actions; Analyze an opinion by the Eastern District of Michigan denying class certification and illustrating how courts are...more
On November 4, 2024, Judge Denise L. Cote of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted in part and denied in part a motion to dismiss a putative class action brought under Sections 10b-5...more
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in two cases concerning the pleading standard in securities fraud class actions....more
In Maso Cap. Invs. Ltd. v. E-House (China) Holdings Ltd., No. 22-355 (2d Cir. June 10, 2024), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of a putative securities-fraud...more
On August 8, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed United States District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’s dismissal of a putative securities class action asserting claims under Sections 10(b)...more
On June 17, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Nvidia Corp. v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB [No. 23-970]. The Supreme Court’s decision is expected to address, for the first time in over a decade, the exacting...more
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear appeals of the Ninth Circuit’s decisions in the Facebook and NVIDIA putative securities class action cases. Our Securities Litigation Group breaks down the potentially far-ranging...more
On June 17, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari on Nvidia’s appeal of the Ninth Circuit’s decision to revive a shareholder class action lawsuit against the company. The Supreme Court will consider the appropriate...more
On June 10, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a putative shareholders’ class action against a real estate company (the “Company”) and several of its directors (the...more
On May 16, 2024, Judge James L. Robart of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington granted a motion to dismiss a putative securities class action against a manufacturer of pop culture...more
On May 14, 2024, Judge Rita F. Lin of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted a motion to dismiss a putative securities class action against a ridesharing company (the “Company”) and...more
The year 2023 witnessed a recovery in the cryptocurrency and digital assets market corresponding with fewer crypto-related securities class action litigation actions than in 2022. Despite this decrease, the nature of the...more