Excerpt: Introduction: On June 6, 2011, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal's requirement that plaintiffs in securities class actions prove "loss causation" at the class certification stage of the case... Read More

Excerpt: The exposure to Insureds and their D&O insurers from securities class action lawsuits has escalated greatly over the last ten years. Much has been written about the explosion in the magnitude of settlements in those lawsuits. Unfortunately... Read More

In a unanimous March 22, 2011 opinion by Justice Sonia Sotomayor , the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the argument of Matrixx Initiatives that adverse product reports must be "statistically significant" in order for a manufacturer to have an obligation... Read More

In a March 29, 2011 order ( here ), Southern District of New York Judge Jed Rakoff granted the defendants' motions to dismiss a pair of subprime-related derivative lawsuits that had been brought against certain directors and officers of Merrill Lynch... Read More