· 5/13/1985
Teamsters Local 282 Pension Trust Fund v. Anthony G. Angelos
Citations
- 762 F.2d 522
- 53 U.S.L.W. 2608
- 6 Employee Benefits Cas. (BNA) 1513
- 1985 U.S. App. LEXIS 31165
How courts have described this case
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- noting that a § 17(a) claim has similar elements to a Rule 10b-5 claim and “adds nothing to plaintiffs arsenal” and § 17(a) claims “should proceed as if only a Rule 10b-5 claim had been raised”
- considering securities-issuer's duty to disclose in context of Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
- ”[j]ustifiable reliance is ... a limitation on a rule 10b-5 action which insures that there is a causal connection between misrepresentation and the plaintiff’s harm”
- “Liability [for securities fraud] follows from willful material misstatements or omissions plus causation, not from ‘justifiable reliance’ in the common sense of that term.”
- ‘‘If the investor already possesses information sufficient to call the representation into question, he cannot claim later that he relied upon or was deceived by the lie.”
- summarizing three circumstances in which “even lies are not actionable”
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Judges: Wood, Easterbrook, Dumbauld
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