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Our Passive-Aggressive Model Of Civil Adjudication, Thomas O. Main
Our Passive-Aggressive Model Of Civil Adjudication, Thomas O. Main
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In this essay, Professor Main offers one original observation and poses two new questions about the vanishing civil trial.
Uncovering The Hidden Conflicts In Securities Class Action Litigation: Lessons From The State Street Case, Benjamin P. Edwards, Anthony Rickey
Uncovering The Hidden Conflicts In Securities Class Action Litigation: Lessons From The State Street Case, Benjamin P. Edwards, Anthony Rickey
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Courts, Congress, and commentators have long worried that stockholder plaintiffs in securities and M&A litigation and their counsel may pursue suits that benefit themselves rather than absent stockholders or the corporations in which they invest. Following congressional reforms that encouraged the appointment of institutional stockholders as lead plaintiffs in securities actions, significant academic commentary has focused on the problem of “pay to play”—the possibility that class action law firms encourage litigation by making donations to politicians with influence over institutional stockholders, particularly public sector pension funds.
A recent federal securities class action in the District of Massachusetts, however, suggests that …