From Reuters, April 12:
Shareholders cannot sue companies for fraud if they flout a rule requiring disclosure of trends expected to affect their bottom line unless the omission makes another statement misleading, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday.
The 9-0 ruling authored by liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor handed a victory to Macquarie Infrastructure in a proposed shareholder class action accusing the company of failing to disclose that its revenues were vulnerable to an international phase-out of high-sulfur fuel oil between 2016 and 2018.The justices reversed a decision by the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to allow the class action brought by Hedge fund Moab Partners to proceed. A federal judge earlier had dismissed the litigation.Sotomayor wrote that while the anti-fraud provision of a federal law called the Securities Act of 1933 clearly prohibits companies from telling misleading half truths, it does not automatically apply when a company remains silent....
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