securities-litigation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-568 Jeffrey A. Cochran v. The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response Waived artful-pleading circuit-split class-action federal-preemption material-fact material-facts misrepresentation securities-litigation securities-litigation-uniform-standards-act securities-regulation slusa 1. Whether SLUSA bars a state-law class action "alleging a misrepresentation or omission of a material fact" when the complaint contains no such alleg…
21-552 Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P., et al. v. Edward Anderson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied Amici (1) chadbourne-v-troice circuit-split covered-securities in-connection-with merrill-lynch-v-dabit securities-exchange-act securities-litigation slusa statutory-interpretation uniform-standards-act Whether the Ninth Circuit, in conflict with other Courts of Appeals, erred in concluding that Troice narrowed Dabit's interpretation of SLUSA's "in co…
20-1541 Pivotal Software, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al. California 2021-05-05 Granted Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) discovery-stay federal-court private-action reform-act securities-act securities-litigation state-court Whether the Reform Act's discovery-stay provision applies to a private action under the Securities Act in state or federal court, or solely to a priva…
19-919 Joseph Becker, et al. v. Ralph S. Janvey, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response Waived anti-injunction-act equitable-receivership in-aid-of-jurisdiction in-rem-claims ponzi-scheme securities-claim securities-litigation settlement-bar-order state-court-litigation state-court-proceedings 1. Whether the Anti-Injunction Act ("AIA"), 28 U.S.C. §2283, allows for the issuance of bar order by the equitable receiver appointed by the SEC that …
19-440 Northern Trust Corporation, et al. v. Lindie L. Banks, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split class-action covered-securities federal-securities-law fiduciary-duty preemption private-securities-litigation-reform-act securities-fraud securities-litigation securities-litigation-uniform-standards-act statutory-interpretation trust-assets trust-law trustee-misconduct uniform-standards-act For purposes of SLUSA, does a trust beneficiary allege misconduct "in connection with" the purchase or sale of a covered security when the beneficiary…
18-1165 Retirement Plans Committee of IBM, et al. v. Larry W. Jander, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-08 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (2) amgen-v-harris circuit-split erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty fifth-third-standard fifth-third-v-dudenhoeffer insider-information pleading-standard private-securities-litigation-reform-act prudence prudent-fiduciary securities-fraud securities-litigation Whether Fifth Third's "more harm than good" pleading standard can be satisfied by generalized allegations that the harm of an inevitable disclosure of…
18-4 Samuel Giancarlo, et al. v. UBS Financial Services, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response Waived amendment amendment-request civil-procedure class-action dismissal due-process judicial-discretion litigation-delay manifest-injustice motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards procedural-errors securities-litigation standing Does manifest injustice result from the errors associated with the district court's dismissal of Petitioners' complaint, the errors of the appellate c…