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· 3/2/1971

Abram Chasins v. Smith, Barney & Co., Inc.

Citations

  • 438 F.2d 1167

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • finding that defendant’s failure to disclose its market maker status was material omission under Section 10(b), despite fact that SEC had never previously held that such disclosure was required
  • failure to disclose that broker‐dealer was a market maker in the stock it recommended was a material omission
  • failure to disclose that broker-dealer was a market maker in the stock it recommended was a material omission
  • “the test is properly one of tort ‘causation in fact’ ”
  • \the test is properly one of tort 'causation in fact' \
  • Rule 10b-5 case; “failure to inform the customer fully of its possible conflict of interest, in that it was a market maker in the securities which it strongly recommended for purchase by him, was an omission of material fact”

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Judges: Friendly, Lumbard, Moore, Fein-Berg, Smith, Kaufman, Hays

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