Teamsters Local 445 Freight Division Pension Fund v. Dynex Capital Inc.

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• holding that corporate scienter can be inferred even where no individual officer is named
• holding that plaintiff had not alleged recklessness because its “broad reference to raw data lack[ed] even an allegation that these data had been collected into reports” that reached the conclusion about which defendant was allegedly aware
• noting that because the plaintiffs “failed to allege that anyone at Dynex or Merit had a compelling motive to mislead investors ... a number of competing inferences regarding scienter arise”
• concluding that “broad reference” to defendants’ access “to raw data” absent “allegation that these data had been collected into reports” failed to “raise[] an inference of scienter based on knowledge of or access to information demonstrating the inaccuracy of [defendants’] public statements”
• noting that plaintiffs may not plead scienter based on motives possessed by all corporate insiders, such as a motive to “sustain the appearance of corporate profitability, or of the success of an investment” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• recognizing the corporate scienter doctrine, but finding that the facts pled did not give rise to a strong inference of scienter on the part of the corporate defendant in light of competing inferences

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