Tuchman v. DSC Communications Corp.

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• holding that complaint failed to state securities claim when plaintiff did not plead that defendants knew that statements were materially false or misleading
• holding that motive to inflate stock price and value of defendants’ investments was insufficient to establish scienter under Rule 9(b)
• noting that allegations providing the motive to commit securities fraud allow an inference of fraudulent intent
• holding that plaintiff must plead specific facts, not conelusory allegations
• accepting as true, for the purposes of a Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal, well-pleaded factual allegations, but rejecting “conclusory allegations or unwarranted deductions of fact.”
• incorporating a photo where the complaint claimed the photo 15 with a suggestive caption was defamatory but did not include the photo itself

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