513 U.S. 561 (1995) Cited 995 times 10 Legal Analyses
Holding that § 12 does not apply to secondary market transactions as the statute's inclusion of the term “prospectus” evinces an intent to limit the Sections's scope solely to the initial public offering
Holding that "[e]ven if Rule 54(b) allows parties to request district courts to revisit earlier rulings, the moving party must do so within the strictures of the law of the case doctrine"
Holding that "class certification is inappropriate where a putative class representative is subject to unique defenses which threaten to become the focus of the litigation"
Holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in rejecting objector's "mere proffer of the prospect of a claim" that the lead plaintiffs had not raised
Holding that a court must " analyze the complaint to determine whether the offenses it alleges can be characterized primarily as omissions or misrepresentations in order to determine whether the Affiliated Ute presumption should apply"
Fed. R. Civ. P. 23 Cited 34,647 times 1231 Legal Analyses
Holding that, to certify a class, the court must find that "questions of law or fact common to class members predominate over any questions affecting only individual members"