Carlson v. Brunswick

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the text of Section 12 “‘the person purchasing such security from him,’ thus specif[ies] that a plaintiff must have purchased the security directly from the issuer of the prospectus”
• “This circuit relies on- official committee reports when considering legislative history, not stray comments by individuals .... ”
• “Section 12 . . . permits suit against a seller of a security by prospectus”
• “Where the meaning of a statute is clear from the text, we need look no further.”
• “This circuit relies on official committee reports when considering legislative history, not stray comments by individuals or other materials unrelated to the statutory language or the committee reports”
• “[A] complaint can establish that a statement was false when made by alleging a later statement by the defendant along the lines of ‘I knew it all along.’ ” (internal quotation marks and brackets omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).