Where a shareholder brought a class action for former shareholders claiming that the proxy statement contained materially misleading statements and omissions, the judgment dismissing the action is reversed and remanded because the omission of information on the net income and ...

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Macomb County Employees Retirement System v. Stratasys Ltd. (MLW No. 70808/Case No. 16-3264 – 6 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Benton, J.)

Tagged with: corporate law Promotional Statements Puffery securities fraud

West Virginia Pipe Trades Health & Welfare Fund v. Medtronic, Inc. (MLW No. 70052/Case No. 15-3468 – 15 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Gruender, J.)

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Securities and Exchange Commission v. Quan (MLW No. 68950/Case No. 14-3707 – 16 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Riley, J.)

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U.S. v. Hawkins (MLW No. 68126/Case No. 13-3335 – 43 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Beam, J.)

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Podraza v. Patriot Coal Investor Group (MLW No. 67964/Case No. 14-1947 – 19 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Shepherd, J.)

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U.S. v. Behrens (MLW No. 64943/Case No. 11-3482 – 10 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Gruender, J.)

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Reuter v. Cutcliff, et al. (MLW No. 61753/Case No. 10-6043 – 19 pages) (U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, Saladino, B.J.) Appealed from U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of Missouri, Dow, J. (James F.B. Daniels, Kansas City, Missouri, for appellant) (David Gregory Brown, Columbia, for appellee).

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McAdams, et al. v. McCord, et al. (MLW No. 59757/Case No. 09-1303 – 7 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Benton, J.) Where investors sued corporate executives and an outside corporate auditor for federal securities fraud, claiming they were ...

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A Kansas City couple has recovered nearly $760,000, including $400,000 in punitive damages, from a Florida-based brokerage firm whose financial adviser allegedly altered two checks payable to the firm, took the money and obtained more under false pretenses. Donald and ...

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U.S. Supreme Court justices questioned whether prosecutors can retry a former Enron Corp. official on charges stemming from the accounting fraud that caused the energy-trading company’s 2001 collapse. F. Scott Yeager, a onetime business strategist for Enron’s broadband unit, contends ...

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