No. 24-224

Plumbers Local 290 Pension Trust Fund v. Root, Inc., et al.

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2024-08-29
Status: Dismissed
Type: Paid
Relisted (2)
Tags: circuit-split disclosure-standards materiality risk-factors sec-filing securities-law
Latest Conference: 2024-12-06 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (from Petition)

This petition presents a question nearly identical to that already before the Court in Facebook, Inc. v. Amalgamated Bank, No. 23-980. The circuits have split two ways concerning whether a company's disclosure in the "Risk Factors" section of an SEC filing is misleading if it warns that a risk may or could materialize when that risk has already transpired at the time the company spoke. The First, Second, Third, Fifth, Ninth, and D.C. Circuits hold that it is misleading to disclose that a risk may or could materialize when that risk has already transpired. The Sixth Circuit has adopted a second, outlier position that such disclosures are never misleading. The question is thus whether the Court should resolve the conflict.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Supreme Court should resolve the circuit split regarding the misleading nature of risk factor disclosures in SEC filings when a warned risk has already transpired

Docket Entries

2024-12-06
Petition Dismissed - Rule 46.
2024-12-04
Joint motion to dismiss the petition pursuant to Rule 46 filed.
2024-12-02
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/6/2024.
2024-10-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/1/2024.
2024-10-15
Reply of petitioner Plumbers Local #290 Pension Trust Fund filed. (Distributed)
2024-09-30
2024-08-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 30, 2024)
2024-07-22
Application (24A68) granted by Justice Kavanaugh extending the time to file until August 28, 2024.
2024-07-16
Application (24A68) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from July 28, 2024 to August 28, 2024, submitted to Justice Kavanaugh.

Attorneys

Plumbers Local #290 Pension Trust Fund
Steven F. HubachekRobbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Petitioner
Root, Inc., et al.
Joe Wesley EarnhardtCravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, Respondent