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· 10/21/1988

Patricia B. Taylor v. First Union Corporation of South Carolina, Formerly Southern Bancorporation, Inc. First Union Corporation

Citations

  • 857 F.2d 240

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that deception that is only\tangentially and inci- dentally\ related to the sale of a security does not satisfy the in con- nection with requirement
  • finding that defendants had no duty to disclose merger negotiations where the plaintiff “failed to identify any statement made misleading by the defendants’ nondisclosure of their merger discussions”
  • noting that a duty to disclose arises “when silence would make other statements misleading or false”
  • reversing a jury verdict imposing liability for failure to disclose under Rule 10b-5 where representatives had met to discuss the possibility of the two banking corporations merging and had reached an agreement in principle to merge when interstate banking became legal
  • \Rule 10b-5 imposes ... a duty to disclose only when silence would make other statements misleading or false.\
  • “Rule 10b-5 imposes such a duty to disclose only when silence would make other statements misleading or false”

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Judges: Russell, Wilkinson, Niemeyer

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