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STROUGO v. BASSINI

Class Actions, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
Where alleged injuries resulting from the coercive nature of a rights offering were to shareholders alone, and did not derive from an injury to the...

LIPTON v. PATHOGENESIS CORP.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Securities Law
Where allegations in a securities class action complaint, taken as a whole, fail to raise a strong enough inference of scienter to meet the heightened...

ALDRIDGE v. A.T. CROSS CORP.

Civil Procedure, Securities Law
Under pleading standards for violations of section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, allegations of statements made by...

FISCHER v. THE VANTIVE CORP.

Class Actions, Securities Law
Where a securities fraud class action complaint is not sufficiently particularized and does not raise a strong inference that misleading statements...

WEST v. PRUDENTIAL SECS., INC.

Class Actions, Injury & Tort Law, Securities Law
Where no causal link could be shown between non-public information, in the form of false statements made by a stockbroker to a handful of his clients,...

RADEMEYER v. FARRIS

Injury & Tort Law, Securities Law
Because the controlling shareholder owed a fiduciary duty to minority shareholders, plaintiff's cause of action for fraud did not accrue until he...

OLMSTED v. PRUCO LIFE INS. CO. OF NEW JERSEY

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Securities Law
The Investment Company Act of 1940 does not provide for a private right of action for violations of sections 26(f) and 27(i).

IN RE: GENEVA STEEL CO.

Bankruptcy Law, Securities Law
For purposes of distribution priority, Bankruptcy Code section 510(b) subordinates investors' claims, alleging fraud in the retention of a security,...

CITY NAT-L BANK v. ADAMS

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Securities Law
Absent the informed written consent of both the former and present client, a lawyer may not represent a party whose interests are adverse to his...

IN RE: TELEGROUP, INC.

Bankruptcy Law, Securities Law
A claim for breach of a provision in a stock purchase agreement requiring the issuer to use its best efforts to register its stock and ensure that the...