Robert M. Deutschman v. Beneficial Corp., Finn M.W. Caspersen, Andrew C. Halvorsen. (d.c. Civil No. 86- 00595)

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• holding that purchaser of option contract had standing to represent class for 10b-5 violation based on affirmative misrepresentations but distinguishing claim from insider trading case
• noting that option contracts “permit investors to hedge against future movements in the market price of securities”
• characterizing option traders as gamblers does not make them fair game for affirmative misrepresentation while stock traders are not
• “The market price for options is directly responsive ... to changes in the market price of the underlying stock, and to information affecting that stock.”

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