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Class Wins Reprieve for Section 11 Securities Act Claim over Merger

By Barry Barnett on August 20, 2013

People who commit to buy a stock on Day 1 can't complain about misrepresentations that the stock issuer made on Day 2 or later. E.g., APA Excelsior III L.P. v. Premiere Techs., Inc., 476 F.3d 1261, 1267 (11th Cir. 2007). The later lies could not have induced you to buy the shares, the theory…

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Guest Post: David Shank

By Barry Barnett on January 9, 2012

Today, Blawgletter has the pleasure of giving honor to an item by one of our firm's newest lawyers, David Shank, late from a clerkship with the estimable and Honorable Barbara M. Lynn.

Mr. Shank spotted a big issue in a new Texas law that aims to cut back on what our lawmakers and…

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Barnett is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a partner in Susman Godfrey’s Dallas and New York offices, and a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. With three decades of trial work representing both plaintiffs and defendants, Barnett is a master strategist in complex commercial litigation.

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