In re City of Scranton

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that § 10(b)’s elements “can be addressed in any order” and that “the failure to adequately allege scienter is enough to doom the claim”
• holding that even with information on the existence of a 10b5-1 trading plans, the lack of evidence on when the defendants entered their plans prevented the court from concluding that the plans mitigated the “suggestion of motive” for the “suspicious trading”
• stating that in evaluating the various indicia of scienter, the court evaluates the complaint holistically and determines whether all of the indicia of scienter support a strong inference of scienter, even if one indicator does not do so alone
• declining to “draw a strong inference of scienter from the proximity of [defendant’s] optimistic statements in the summer and its more sobering news in the fall”
• affirming dismissal of Section 10(b) claims

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