Burnette v. Tennessee

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the statute of limitations in a securities fraud case runs from the date of the discovery of the facts underlying the alleged violation, and discovery includes inquiry and actual notice
• identifying the “principle that, until the Supreme Court speaks, the federal circuit courts are under duties to arrive at their own determination of the merits of federal questions presented to them”
• \[P]laintiffs were placed on inquiry notice of their claims by the very SEC-mandated disclosure documents they rely upon in their complaints.\
• “If a federal court simply accepts the interpretation of another circuit without [independently] addressing the merits, it is not doing its job.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).