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• stating that evidence of “self-serving motives for the company to appear profitable” is not sufficient under the motive and opportunity standard
• liability may be premised on use of analysts as a conduit to communicate false statements to market
• general description of alleged wrongdoing by defendants, unaccompanied by more specific information, does not reach the level of particularity required by the Reform Act
• “One ‘classic’ fact pattern giving rise to a strong inference of scienter is that defendants made statements when they knew or had access to information suggesting these public statements to be materially inaccurate.”
• “Insider stock sales are not inherently suspicious; they become so only when the level of trading is dramatically out of line with prior trading practices at times calculated to maximize the personal benefit from the undisclosed information.” (quotation omitted)
• “Generally, securities issuers are not liable for statements or forecasts disseminated by securities analysts or third parties unless they have sufficiently entangled themselves with the analysts’ forecasts so as to render those predictions attributable to the issuers.” (citation modified)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).