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Responding To A False Alarm: Federal Preemption Of State Securities Fraud Causes Of Action , Richard W. Painter Nov 1998

Responding To A False Alarm: Federal Preemption Of State Securities Fraud Causes Of Action , Richard W. Painter

Cornell Law Review

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Pleading Scienter After The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act : Or A Textualist Revenge , Michael B. Dunn Nov 1998

Pleading Scienter After The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act : Or A Textualist Revenge , Michael B. Dunn

Cornell Law Review

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Securities Fraud Or Mere Puffery: Refinement Of The Corporate Puffery Defense, R. Gregory Roussel May 1998

Securities Fraud Or Mere Puffery: Refinement Of The Corporate Puffery Defense, R. Gregory Roussel

Vanderbilt Law Review

A corporation's use of forward-looking corporate statements' is a common, arguably essential, element of the landscape of modern financial markets. Unfortunately, the failure to meet the expectations created by forward-looking statements often serves as the basis for a potentially devastating private action for securities fraud. Before Congress responded to frivolous private securities fraud class actions with the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, ("Reform Act") the judiciary took it upon itself to provide relief to burdened corporations. In doing so, the courts focused on the materiality of the corporation's statements, an essential building block in the plaintiffs construction of …


Unjust Justice In Parallel Proceedings: Preventing Circumvention Of Criminal Discovery Rules, Randy S. Eckers Jan 1998

Unjust Justice In Parallel Proceedings: Preventing Circumvention Of Criminal Discovery Rules, Randy S. Eckers

Hofstra Law Review

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Look Who's Talking: Defining The Scope Of The Misappropriation Theory After United States V. O'Hagan, Janet E. Kerr, Tor S. Sweeney Jan 1998

Look Who's Talking: Defining The Scope Of The Misappropriation Theory After United States V. O'Hagan, Janet E. Kerr, Tor S. Sweeney

Oklahoma Law Review

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Securities Fraud Over The Internet: The Flies In The Ointment And A Hope Of Fly Paper, Kevin Mason Jan 1998

Securities Fraud Over The Internet: The Flies In The Ointment And A Hope Of Fly Paper, Kevin Mason

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

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