As I read the opinion, I find myself favoring a position that was not endorsed by any of the nine Justices. It seems to me that the the Court got it right with respect to what a “strong inference” ...

In 2007, the Supreme Court defined a strong inference of scienter as more than merely plausible or reasonable—it must be cogent and at least as compelling as any opposing inference of non-fraudulent ...

In a precedential opinion issued on Oct. 15, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that willful blindness, or what other courts have described as an egregious refusal to see the ...

I want to revisit the subject of my previous editorial—strong inference. It's an important concept. My previous editorial focused on a specific set of clinical studies investigating the treatment of ...

Some people are annoyingly good at "reading between the lines". They seem to know, well before anyone else, who is the killer in a movie, or the meaning of an abstract poem. What these people are ...

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