Greebel v. FTP Software, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “there is nothing inherently improper in pressing for sales to be made earlier than in the normal course [of business]”
• concluding that standard under Reform Act is “congruent and consistent” with standard under Rule 9(b)
• holding that “to support even a reasonable inference of scienter ... the complaint must describe the violations with sufficient particularity”
• concluding that “the words of the [PSLRA] neither mandate nor prohibit the use of any particular method to establish an inference of scienter.”
• holding that the PSLRA imposes a more rigorous pleading standard than applied by any of the Courts of Appeals prior to the enactment of the statute
• holding that channel stuffing does not support a \strong inference” of scienter because \there may be any number of legitimate reasons for attempting to achieve sales earlier”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).