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12 Dec 2014, 12:59 pm by John Jascob
The paper argues that the Harvard proposal cherry-picks from the academic research on classified boards and can be excluded as materially false or misleading under Exchange Act Rules 14a-8 and 14a-9.The paper, whose other author is Joseph A. [read post]
24 Jun 2014, 5:55 am
  After briefly suggesting that an implied right of action for securities fraud is not in keeping with more recent precedent, and largely ignoring the powerful textual arguments recently put forward by Joseph Grundfest for overturning Basic, Thomas devotes most of his effort to the argument that recent economic research calling into question the efficient capital markets hypothesis has undermined the fraud on the market doctrine. [read post]
28 May 2014, 4:18 am by Kevin LaCroix
In the article, Frankel tells the story of how the initiative and intellectual work of two law school professors – Stanford Law Professor Joseph Grundfest and Michigan Law Professor Adam Pritchard – fueled the effort to have the Court reconsider the Fraud on the Market theory. [read post]
27 May 2014, 4:23 am by Broc Romanek
” Here’s an excerpt from the opening: For two months last summer, Stanford Law School professor Joseph Grundfest locked himself away in his home office in California’s Portola Valley. [read post]
28 Jan 2014, 4:10 am by Kevin LaCroix
As Stanford Law Professor Joseph Grundfest is quoted as saying the press release accompanying the report, if the Supreme Court throws out the “fraud on the market” theory in the Halliburton case, “it will become impossible to certify a large number of Section 10(b) class actions. [read post]
28 Jan 2014, 4:10 am by Kevin LaCroix
As Stanford Law Professor Joseph Grundfest is quoted as saying the press release accompanying the report, if the Supreme Court throws out the “fraud on the market” theory in the Halliburton case, “it will become impossible to certify a large number of Section 10(b) class actions. [read post]
24 Jan 2014, 7:38 am by James Hamilton
Former SEC Commissioners Paul Atkins, Joseph Grundfest, Steven Wallman and Edward Fleischman signed the brief, along with former SEC General Counsel Brian Cartwright. [read post]
18 Nov 2013, 12:26 am by Kevin LaCroix
As Stanford Law Professor Joseph Grundfest is quoted as saying is Alison Frankel’s blog post, even if the court eliminates the Basis presumption, “investors in some cases will still be able to bring class actions under Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933,” which does not require a showing of reliance but holds defendants strictly liable for material misrepresentations . [read post]
21 Oct 2013, 2:32 pm by James Hamilton
Former SEC Chair Chris Cox and Commissioners Joseph Grundfest, Paul Atkins and Charles Cox have filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to not adopt a strained and overly broad reading of the whistleblower provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act when Congress has already acted in the Dodd-Frank Act to extend whistleblower protections to private company employees. [read post]
17 Oct 2013, 1:35 am by Kevin LaCroix
They rely on academic research by Stanford Law Professor Joseph Grundfest that in the Exchange Act Congress meant to refer to actual reliance. [read post]
24 Jul 2013, 3:46 am by Kevin LaCroix
  The press release accompanying the report has a very interesting quotation from Stanford Law School Professor Joseph Grundfest, who predicts that there will be a “change in defense litigation strategy. [read post]
30 Apr 2013, 7:41 am by James Hamilton
Former SEC Commissioners Paul Atkins and Joseph Grundfest, and former SEC General Counsel Simon Lorne, filed an amicus brief in the DC Circuit in a case involving an SEC request to compel the Securities Investor Protection Corporation to file an application for a protective decree and commence a liquidation proceeding in relation to the fraudulent activities of Robert Allen Stanford. [read post]
3 Feb 2013, 8:48 am by Securites Lawprof
, by Joseph Grundfest, Stanford University Law School, was recently posted on SSRN. [read post]
22 Jan 2013, 9:10 pm by Kevin LaCroix
The press release quotes Stanford Law School Professor Joseph Grundfest, who notes that the upsurge in SEC whistleblower reports raises the questions whether the SEC will translate these reports into enforcement actions, and, if so, whether “private-party plaintiffs will be successful in prosecuting ‘piggyback’ claims that copy the Commission’s complaints. [read post]