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Answering Halliburton Ii's Unanswered Question: Burdens Of Production And Persuasion On Price Impact At Class Certification, Wendy Gerwick Couture
Answering Halliburton Ii's Unanswered Question: Burdens Of Production And Persuasion On Price Impact At Class Certification, Wendy Gerwick Couture
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Professor Alan R. Bromberg And The Scholarly Role Of The Treatise, Wendy Gerwick Couture
Professor Alan R. Bromberg And The Scholarly Role Of The Treatise, Wendy Gerwick Couture
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Class-Action Tolling, Federal Common Law, And Securities Statutes Of Repose: A Recommendation, Wendy Gerwick Couture
Class-Action Tolling, Federal Common Law, And Securities Statutes Of Repose: A Recommendation, Wendy Gerwick Couture
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This Essay focuses on a narrow, but potentially outcome determinative, question: Does the filing of a securities class action toll the three-year outer time limit applicable to claims under sections 11 and 12(a)(2) of the Securities Act and the five-year outer time limit applicable to claims under section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act, such that potential class members-after a decision on class certification-can assert an individual federal action, even if those outer time limits would have elapsed absent tolling? There is currently a circuit split on this issue, with the Tenth Circuit answering "yes" and the Second Circuit answering …
Materiality And A Theory Of Legal Circularity, Wendy Gerwick Couture
Materiality And A Theory Of Legal Circularity, Wendy Gerwick Couture
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This Article argues that the materiality doctrine, which lies at the heart of securities fraud, has the potential to operate as a self-fulfilling prophecy. This Article labels this phenomenon "legal circularity." In order to place the potential legal circularity of materiality in context among the various other legal doctrines that share this potential, this Article proposes a two part Theory of Legal Circularity. First, this Article proposes the following Legal Circularity Test to identify potentially circular doctrines: A legal doctrine is potentially circular if: (1) the legal doctrine incorporates the behavior or attitude of a population or person, either hypothetical …
False Statements Of Belief As Securities Fraud, Wendy Gerwick Couture
False Statements Of Belief As Securities Fraud, Wendy Gerwick Couture
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