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
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