· 11/19/1998
Lirette v. Shiva Corp.
Citations
- 27 F. Supp. 2d 268
- 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18525
- 1998 WL 812696
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- requiring a securities plaintiff to show that “sales by insiders were in fact unusual or suspicious in amount or timing.”
- “Even assuming ... that an analyst’s statements could be attributed to a company, any allegation that the company made misrepresentations to the analyst must survive the Rule 9(b) standard.”
- “Even assuming ... that an analyst’s statements could be attributed to a company, any allegation that the company made misrepresentations to the analyst must survive the Rule 9[b] standard.”
- A plaintiff “bears the burden of showing that sales by insiders were in fact unusual or suspicious in amount or timing.”
- inferences that defendants by virtue of their position within a company “must have known” about problems are “inadequate”
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Judges: Young
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