· 3/2/1971
Abram Chasins v. Smith, Barney & Co., Inc.
Citations
- 438 F.2d 1167
How courts have described this case
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- 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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