NEW YORK - Citing the company's history of safety lapses, cost cutting and workplace disasters, shareholders who purchased stock in BP on June 10 filed a class action lawsuit based on claims that the company mislead investors before the Deepwater... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The U.S. Supreme Court on April 27 affirmed a Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that a shareholder derivative lawsuit over Merck & Co. Inc.'s marketing of Vioxx was timely and held that the statute of... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 8 heard oral arguments in an appeal of a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling allowing the Securities and Exchange Commission to seek penalties against defendants for securities fraud... Read More

LOS ANGELES — (Mealey’s) The lead plaintiffs in a consolidated class action complaint against former subprime mortgage lending giant Countrywide Financial Corp. (CFC) and others for alleged violations of federal securities laws announced a... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The U.S. Supreme Court on March 22 unanimously affirmed that shareholders of a drug maker properly showed that the drug maker violated federal securities law by failing to disclose that one of its products caused adverse... Read More

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