Holding that a defendant's ability to challenge the sufficiency of a complaint had "passed" because he "never raised any objections to the complaint or otherwise sought a more particular statement of the allegations against him until two years after the complaint was filed and months after the parties had moved for summary judgment"
Noting that "because section 17 applies to both sales and offers to sell securities, the SEC need not base its claim of liability on any completed transaction at all"
477 F. Supp. 2d 342 (D. Mass. 2007) Cited 23 times
Finding that complaint with securities fraud claim that included duty to disclose as an element failed to allege sufficiently detailed facts from which a duty to disclose could arise
Holding that a letter from FDA official recommending that a warning be included on its label was admissible under public records exception to the hearsay rule
Finding that where defendant, a member of the security committee of a cooperative bank, acting solely in his capacity as an official of the bank, was given confidential information by plaintiff, an individual seeking to secure a loan from the bank, and defendant "understood that the information was given to him in confidence as a director and member of the security committee of the cooperative bank, and he received the information in that capacity and solely for the purpose of enabling himself and other officials of the bank to determine whether the security warranted the granting of the loan," the defendant bank officer had "a fiduciary relation toward the plaintiff with reference to the matters disclosed" and could not use the information for his personal gain as against either the plaintiff or the bank