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WASHINGTON — In a pair of securities fraud decisions issued Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled for investors seeking to band together in a class-action lawsuit and imposed a strict time limit on some suits filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The class action case, Amgen Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, No. 11-1085, was a kind of sequel to the court’s 2011 decision in Wal-Mart Stores v. Dukes, which threw out an enormous employment discrimination class action on the ground that the plaintiffs did not have enough in common to pursue their claims in a single lawsuit.
The question in the new case was whether plaintiffs in securities fraud cases should be required to prove that the defendant had made a material misstatement before a class action may be certified. Material information, the court has explained, is the sort of thing that reasonable investors would believe significantly alters the total mix of available information.
But the court has also said that materiality may be presumed when a company makes public statements in an efficient securities market, or a market that reflects all publicly available information about a company. That presumption is known as the “fraud on the market” theory.
The case decided Wednesday arose from statements made by Amgen, a drug company, about the safety of two drugs that stimulate red blood cell production, reducing the need for transfusions. The plaintiffs asserted that those statements were materially false and had inflated the company’s stock price.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, writing for the majority in the 6-to-3 decision, said the plaintiffs’ assertion was enough for purposes of class certification because the question at that stage was merely whether, in the words of the relevant rule of civil procedure, “questions of law or fact common to class members predominate over any questions affecting only individual members.”
Justice Ginsburg wrote that the question of materiality, whatever its eventual answer, was a common one.
“The class is entirely cohesive: it will prevail or fail in unison,” she wrote. “In no event will the individual circumstances of particular class members bear on the inquiry.”
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Samuel A. Alito Jr., Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined the majority opinion. In a concurrence, Justice Alito said that it may be time to reconsider the fraud-on-the-market theory in light of research suggesting that it may sometimes rest on a faulty premise.
Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and in part by Justice Antonin Scalia, dissented. Justice Thomas agreed that the theory was questionable and added that materiality must be shown at the certification stage.
Justice Scalia, in a separate dissent, said that “certification of the class is often, if not usually, the prelude to a substantial settlement by the defendant because the costs and risks of litigating further are so high.” Allowing plaintiffs to obtain class certification without showing that the asserted misstatement was material, he said, is “unquestionably disastrous.”
In the second case decided Wednesday, Gabelli v. Securities and Exchange Commission, No. 11-1274, the court ruled unanimously that the commission must act promptly when it seeks civil penalties.
The case concerned Marc J. Gabelli and Bruce Alpert, who were executives affiliated with a mutual fund company, Gabelli Funds L.L.C. They successfully argued that the S.E.C. had waited too long to sue them for what the agency said were abuses related to rapid trading by a hedge fund.
The law in question, which applies to many kinds of government requests for civil penalties, says lawsuits “shall not be entertained unless commenced within five years from the date when the claim first accrued.” The agency sued more than five years after the disputed conduct.
“The question,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote for the court, “is whether the five-year clock begins to tick when the fraud is complete or when the fraud is discovered.”
In ordinary civil litigation, it is not unusual for courts to say that the clock starts running in fraud cases only when the plaintiff discovers or should have discovered the wrongdoing. That is because of the nature of fraud, Chief Justice Roberts explained.
“When the injury is self-concealing, private parties may be unaware that they have been harmed,” he wrote. “Most of us do not live in a state of constant investigation; absent any reason to think we have been injured, we do not typically spend our days looking for evidence that we were lied to or defrauded.”
But the government, the chief justice wrote, is different.
Investigation is a central mission of the commission, he said, and it has the tools to ferret out fraud. And allowing the government unlimited time would raise a host of practical problems, he added.
“It would leave defendants exposed to government enforcement action not only for five years after their misdeeds, but for an additional uncertain period into the future,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote. “Repose would hinge on speculation about what the government knew, when it knew it and when it should have known it.”
New Zealand filmmaker was training for endurance swim when shark estimated at 14 feet long attacked.
An award-winning short-film director was killed Wednesday in a bloody shark attack off New Zealand while police in a helicopter watched helplessly from above, local media are reporting.
Police Inspector Shawn Rutene said in a statement that the swimmer, identified by his family as Adam Strange, was about 220 yards offshore when the shark attacked.
A police helicopter flew over the scene as the man battled the shark, The New Zealand Herald reported. But by the time a police officer in a boat drew near, the victim was dead, the Herald said, citing a police source who declined identification while the investigation continued.
The officer fired up to 12 shots before the shark, apparently hit, released the body. "It rolled over and disappeared," Rutene said, estimating the shark was about 14 feet long.
The Herald said that up to three sharks, most likely great whites, had been feeding on fish and birds, and that the victim swam into the middle of them.
Pio Mose told the Herald that he watched the shark attack while fishing on nearby rocks. Mose said he saw the "huge" shark attack the victim, who was swimming alone from the bay back to the beach, about 50 yards from where Mose was standing.
Mose said the man struggled with the shark and it swam away — but quickly returned. He said three or four other sharks came to the area after the second attack.
"I yelled at him to swim to the rocks. There was blood everywhere," Mose told the Herald. "The water was red. It's pretty scary. ... All I was thinking was I wanted to jump in the water and help, but I didn't want to get attacked by a shark, too."
The body was later retrieved. Muriwai Beach near Auckland was closed after the fatal attack.
The 46-year-old Strange was training for a 2.8-mile endurance swim Sunday from Auckland to Rangitoto Island. He was testing new goggles during a planned 1-mile swim when the shark struck.
About 150 friends and family gathered at the beach Thursday morning to say goodbye.
"He was a very robust, big, barrel-chested surfer," his friend Adam Stevens. "He was basically completely obsessed with the ocean, with paddle boards and body surfing, everything. His garage was like a museum of surf craft."
His family released a statement calling the married father of one "a glorious and great father, husband and friend." His website says his films, including Aphrodite's Farm, have been featured at numerous international festivals.
Shark expert Malcolm Francis told One News that based on the reports it is likely the attack was by a great white shark. Clinton Duffy, a shark expert with the Department of Conservation, said New Zealand is a hotspot for great white sharks, and other potentially lethal species also inhabit the waters.
Attacks are rare. Duffy estimated that only 12 to 14 people have been killed by sharks in New Zealand since record-keeping began in the 1830s.
Around the world, sharks attacked humans 80 times last year, and seven people were killed, according to the University of Florida's International Shark Attack File. The death toll was lower than it was in 2011 but higher than the average of 4.4 from 2001 to 2010. Contributing: Associated Press Source : http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/27/egyptian-hot-air-balloon-company
Egyptians stand by the site where the hot air balloon plunged to the ground in Luxor. Photograph: Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images
The hot air balloon crash that killed 19 tourists, including two Britons and a UK resident in Luxor, Egypt, was the second crash involving the company Sky Cruises in the space of 18 months.
Another balloon belonging to Sky Cruises – which has been the preferred carrier for the travel agent Thomas Cook for several years – crashed into the Nile in October 2011 (video). No one was killed, but the balloon hit a boat and was left floating on the river with passengers reporting bruising.
It is understood that while the pilot involved in the 2011 crash no longer works for Sky Cruises, the company remained the preferred carrier for Blue Sky travel agents, and by extension Thomas Cook, whom they represent in Egypt.
Representatives of Thomas Cook in Eg ypt referred press inquiries to the head office in London. But the Luxor manager of Blue Sky denied it should have changed carriers after the 2011 incident.
"Sky Cruises are the highest one on the market," insisted Kamal el-Kordy, Blue Sky's Upper Egypt area manager.
"We [were] worried, of course. But we have to follow the rules. They [Sky Cruises] have all the documents from all the civil aviation control. What can we do? We are not engineers and they have all the paperwork according to the law."
He added: "All of the excursion companies we use satisfy the health and safety demands of all the major British travel companies. We work according to the laws in their countries."
Tuesday's crash in Luxor (video)raised questions about safety standards, and all flights have been suspended pending an investigation. There are fears for the future of Egypt's ballooning industry, despite its popularity with tourists.
The Britons Yvonne Rennie, 48, Joe Bampton, 40, and Bampton's Hungarian-born partner, Suzanna Gyetvai, 34, died in the tragedy. It appears to have been the worst accident of its kind in history.
Rennie's husband, Michael, 49, was being treated on Tuesday night at Luxor international hospital, where a spokeswoman said he was in a stable condition. He and the pilot, named locally as Momin Mourad Ali, were the only survivors. They, along with seven other passengers, including the other three British-based tourists, are believed to have jumped out of the balloon to escape the flames. Ali suffered 70% burns and was also being treated in hospital in Luxor.
The other tourists – nine from Hong Kong, four Japanese, two French and a Belgian – all died in the explosion.
Bampton and Gyetvai were from Clapham, south London, and both worked for Lots Road Auctions in Chelsea, west London. Bampton was an expert valuer in rugs, carpets and antiques, and Gyetvai was a general valuer. Both were also artists, Gyetvai creating works in a variety of media under her professional name, Zsi Chimera.
The Rennies, from Perth, Scotland, were described as "very nice people" who only spent the weekends together owing to work commitments and so were looking forward to going on holiday together. Yvonne Rennie was a medical receptionist, and her husband works in the construction industry.
Representatives of Sky Cruises declined to speculate on the causes for the crash. "The [investigation] committee is the one that's going to decide on what happened. They have taken the witness statements, and they will decide. The fate is with God," said Captain Hany Salah, Sky Cruises' operations manager. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/27/egyptian-hot-air-balloon-company