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Skadden Discusses the Continued Abuse of Mass Arbitration

By Michael W. McTigue Jr. and Meredith C. Slawe April 22, 2025 by renholding

On April 15, 2025, the American Arbitration Association (AAA) distributed an infographic with statistics on mass arbitration in 2024, which could be read to suggest that the consumer mass arbitration process is functioning effectively. Those steeped in defending mass arbitrations, …

ISS Discusses Proposed $362.5 Million Settlement in GE Securities Fraud Class Action

By Donald F. Grunewald April 21, 2025 by renholding

On November 25, 2024, plaintiffs Sjunde AP-Fonden and The Cleveland Bakers And Teamsters Pension Fund (together “Plaintiffs”) moved Judge Jesse Furman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Court”) for preliminary approval of a …

Cleary Gottlieb Discusses Second Circuit Decision on Consumer Arbitration Agreements

By Carmine Boccuzzi, Jr., Ari MacKinnon, Lina Bensman,  Boaz S. Morag and Katie Gonzalez April 3, 2025 by renholding

On March 13, 2025, a divided Second Circuit in Davitashvili v. Grubhub Inc. affirmed in part and reversed in part a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denying three major food delivery platforms’ …

Gibson Dunn Offers Securities Litigation Update for 2024

By Craig Varnen, Monica Loseman, Brian Lutz, Jefferson Bell and Chase Weidner March 5, 2025 by renholding

In this update:

  • We report on orders from the Supreme Court that dismissed two securities-related cases from the Court’s merits docket, leaving unresolved questions about pleading standards and the nature of misstatements under the PSLRA. We also examine one potential
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The Role of AI in Judicial Decision-Making

By Eric A. Posner and Shivam Saran February 19, 2025 by renholding

[Authors’ Note: This post was written by the large language model, Claude.AI (professional plan), after being fed our paper and asked to summarize it. We have lightly edited the post.]

Can artificial intelligence replace human judges? This question, once confined …

Discovery as a Compliance Problem

By J. Travis Laster and Elise Bernlohr Maizel February 13, 2025 by renholding

It’s no secret that civil discovery breeds attorney misconduct. The incentives are all wrong. Lawyers have an incentive to advance their clients’ interests. Fighting tooth and nail on behalf of a client helps to justify large fees and repeat business, …

Texas vs. Delaware: Which State Will Shape the Future of Corporate Law?

By Shane Goodwin January 15, 2025 by renholding

The establishment of the Texas Business Court (“Business Court”) in September 2024 marks a watershed moment in corporate governance. As the “Dexit” phenomenon gains traction – with corporations considering an exit from Delaware as a state of incorporation – Texas …

Cahill Gordon Discusses Second Circuit Decision Lowering Bar for Materiality in Fraud Claims Against Auditors

By Joel Kurtzberg, John MacGregor, Jason Rozbruch and Jessica Urgo January 13, 2025 by renholding

On October 31, 2024, a Second Circuit panel amended its August 2023 decision in New England Carpenters Guaranteed Annuity & Pension Funds v. DeCarlo after granting a motion for rehearing1 and held that misstatements in an audit opinion may be

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The Drama Around Moelis and New DGCL Section 122(18) Just Got Hotter

By Mark Lebovitch November 18, 2024 by renholding

The 2024 amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”) were born from an atypical period of acrimony and controversy among the corporate bar, stockholder advocates, and corporate law academics, including harsh public criticism of members of the Court of …

The Dual Role of Short Sellers in Securities Litigation

By Chelsea Liu, Lily H.G. Nguyen and Kelvin Jui Keng Tan October 25, 2024 by renholding

In a new paper, we explore the often-misunderstood role of short sellers in corporate misconduct and securities class actions. Short sellers are investors who bet on a future decline in a company’s stock price. While their actions are sometimes criticized …

Sullivan & Cromwell Discusses Delaware Decision Dismissing Claims Against Controlling Shareholder

By Jacob E. Cohen, Brian T. Frawley and John L. Hardiman September 23, 2024 by renholding

Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster dismissed claims two weeks ago against a controller in Clement v. Apollo Global Management, LLC. Plaintiff alleged that a merger was unfair because the controller allegedly extracted “unique benefits” in the merger. The court …

Gibson Dunn Offers Securities Litigation 2024 Mid-Year Update

By Craig Varnen, Monica Loseman, Brian Lutz, Jefferson Bell and Chase Weidner September 18, 2024 by renholding

This update provides an overview of the major developments in federal and state securities litigation since our Securities Litigation 2023 Year-End Update. A recent NERA Economic Consulting (NERA) study provides an overview of recent developments in filings. This section …

Cohen Milstein Discusses Two U.S. Supreme Court Cases that May Increase Hurdles for Securities Fraud Plaintiffs

By Laura H. Posner and Alexandra Gray September 12, 2024 by renholding

In November, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that will implicate the ability of investors to bring securities fraud claims. The most worrisome – NVIDIA Corp. v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder …

A New Approach to Measuring Shareholder Damages in Securities Class Actions

By Michael McDonald September 11, 2024 by renholding

Securities class-action lawsuits play a crucial role in holding corporations accountable for financial misdeeds. They typically involve allegations of securities fraud, where a company makes misleading statements or omits important information that leads to an inflated stock price. When the …

Fraud-on-the-Market Liability in the ESG Era

By Kevin S. Haeberle July 29, 2024 by renholding

Fraud-on-the-market (“FOTM”) suits are thought to generate considerable benefits for society – namely, those associated with increased stock-market price accuracy and liquidity. But these suits are also said to impose exceptionally large social costs relative to even those associated with …

Just Friends? Managers’ Connections to Judges

By Sterling Huang, Sugata Roychowdhury, Ewa Sletten and Yanping Xu July 25, 2024 by renholding

The Code of Conduct for United States Judges prohibits judges from allowing personal relationships, including social connections with parties or attorneys involved in a case, to influence the judges’ conduct. However, the disclosure of such social conflicts, as well as …

Skadden Discusses What Decisions May Look Like After Chevron’s Demise

By Shay Dvoretzky, Parker Rider-Longmaid, Emily J. Kennedy and Sylvia O. Tsakos July 22, 2024 by renholding

In Garland v. Cargill, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) exceeded its statutory authority by issuing a rule that classifies bump stocks as “machineguns” under the National Firearms Act of …

Does Expected Shareholder Litigation Affect Corporate ESG Reporting?

By Lijun (Gillian) Lei, Sydney Qing Shu and Wayne B. Thomas July 16, 2024 by renholding

Many firms now issue ESG reports voluntarily in response to fast-growing investor and stakeholder demand. Yet survey evidence shows that corporate lawyers consider ESG-related disputes a top source of litigation risk for their clients.[1] In a new study, we …

Wachtell Lipton Discusses the Supreme Court’s Business Docket Last Term

By John F. Savarese, Kevin S. Schwartz, Noah B. Yavitz, Adam L. Goodman and Akua F. Abu July 16, 2024 by renholding

On July 1, the U.S. Supreme Court concluded its most consequential Term in years, with a flood of decisions on contentious issues ranging from abortion access to the regulation of social media companies and gun possession to presidential immunity.  The …

Big Business Take Note: Rule by Judiciary Isn’t the Boon You May Think It Is

By Todd H. Baker July 8, 2024 by renholding

The press has largely reported the Supreme Court’s two recent decisions unravelling Chevron deference to administrative agency interpretations of law and extending the time for parties to challenge agency actions as big wins for big businesses — the culmination of …

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