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Feb. 8, 2014

VIDEO: 'Fraud on the market' is Basically over

The presumption of reliance theory is under attack, and without it securities fraud class actions will go the way of the Dodo bird. By Ramzi Abadou


By Ramzi Abadou


In Amgen v. Conn. Ret. Plans & Trust Funds (2013), four members of the U.S. Supreme Court asked a corporation facing a securities fraud class action to bring them a case to eradicate this type of litigation altogether. Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Anthony Kennedy and Samuel Alito (the "Amgen Four") wanted a vehicle for re-examining the cornerstone of securities fraud class action litigation - Basic v. Le...

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