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· 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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