Thomas v. Generis

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• holding loss causation not pled by allegation that share price was “depressed” on the date of sale causing damages of “the difference between the price Interactive shareholders received and Interactive’s true value at the time of [the Merger].”
• rejecting argument that forecasts in proxy were false because they were \not commensurate with\ defendants' prior, more hopeful and optimistic statements
• compiling cases from several circuits, all of which holding that assumptions and inputs in financial analyses are immaterial when disclosed to stockholders and thus cannot support a Section 14(a) claim, which requires material misrepresentation
• “[A]pproval of the Merger can only have proximately caused economic loss if the shareholders’ hope [that the company would prove more valuable than the merger consideration implied] would have been realized...”
• applying Omnicare to a Section 14(a) claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).