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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-944 Robinhood Markets, Inc., et al. v. Vinod Sodha, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending interim-financial-data item-303 misleading-omissions regulation-s-k section-11 securities-act 1. Whether an issuer violates Section 11(a)'s misleading-omissions prong by failing to disclose interim financial data that investors may consider mat…
25A506 Walter W. Bullock, et al. v. Rivian Automotive, Inc., et al. California 2025-11-04 Application corporate-charter federal-court forum-provision initial-public-offering securities-act state-court Whether a publicly-traded corporation can unilaterally amend its corporate charter to include a forum-steering provision that requires Securities Act …
25-44 Fiyyaz Pirani v. Slack Technologies, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-14 Denied Response Waived burden-shifting circuit-conflict direct-listing prospectus-liability registration-requirement securities-act Whether Section 12(a)(2) of the Securities Act requires plaintiffs to plead and prove registration of shares purchased in a misleading prospectus and …
24A68 Plumbers Local 290 Pension Trust Fund v. Root, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-07-19 Presumed Complete business-risk disclosure-obligation initial-public-offering material-misstatement securities-act sixth-circuit Whether a securities offering document is materially misleading when it warns of a potential business risk without disclosing that the risk has alread…
22-1016 Cardone Capital, LLC, et al. v. Luis Pino Ninth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bespeaks-caution-doctrine circuit-split forward-looking-statements risk-disclosures securities-act seller-liability Whether the bespeaks-caution doctrine imposes a categorical requirement that cautionary language be made after or at the same time as the challenged m…
22-267 Glenn Arcaro v. Albert Parks, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied Response Waived cryptocurrency investment-liability pinter-v-dahl securities-act social-media social-media-promotion standing statutory-seller Whether the Eleventh Circuit's Opinion violates this Court's decision in Pinter v. Dahl by creating a new test for statutory seller liability under th…
22-200 Slack Technologies, LLC, fka Slack Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Fiyyaz Pirani Ninth Circuit 2022-09-02 Judgment Issued Amici (18) civil-procedure ninth-circuit prospectus registration-statement section-11 section-12 section-12(a)(2) securities-act securities-act-1933 standing Whether Sections 11 and 12(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 require plaintiffs to plead and prove that they bought shares registered under the regi…
21-5920 In Re Jason Brooks 2021-10-06 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-vagueness due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction securities-act suspension-clause vagueness Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence can overcome AEDPA's gatekeeping provisions and/or whether a prisoner may be entitled to federal habe…
20-1541 Pivotal Software, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al. California 2021-05-05 Granted Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) discovery-stay federal-court private-action reform-act securities-act securities-litigation state-court Whether the Reform Act's discovery-stay provision applies to a private action under the Securities Act in state or federal court, or solely to a priva…
20-862 Hui Feng, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response Waived antifraud-provisions broker-registration capital-raising investment-advisers-act-of-1940 sec-authority secondary-market secondary-market-transactions securities-act securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 statutory-interpretation Whether the SEC exceeded its statutory authority
19-249 Kevin Lampkin, et al. v. UBS Financial Services, Incorporated, fka UBS Painewebber, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Response Waived cendant-cases civil-procedure employee-compensation employee-stock-options fifth-circuit sale-definition sale-of-securities securities securities-act securities-act-of-1933 securities-regulation standing stock-option supervisory-powers Is the grant of an employee stock option a 'sale' of a security under the Securities Act of 1933?