Smith v. Crescent City Live-Stock Landing & Slaughter-House Co.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a lead plaintiff group of three members is a “size that courts have generally found likely to be cohesive”
• noting that “‘[o]ne of the principal legislative purposes of the PSLRA was to prevent 7 lawyer-driven litigation’”
• explaining that allowing “unrelated investors to join together” could lead to the type of “lawyer-driven litigation” that the PSLRA aims to prevent (citation omitted)
• describing aggregation of a lead plaintiff group as a “threshold issue”
• “Courts have correctly found that the PSLRA evidences a strong presumption in favor of approving a properly-selected lead plaintiff's decisions as to counsel selection and counsel retention.”
• “Courts have correctly found that the PSLRA evidences a strong presumption in favor of approving a properly-selected lead plaintiff’s decision as to counsel selection and counsel retention.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).