I normally cite to The Wall Street Journal. But occasionally I come across something elsewhere worthy of note. One of my sources is the Business Law Prof Blog. There was a post there today titled “Omissions Liability: Tempest in a Teapot or Gathering Storm?”
At issue, can there be Rule 10b-5 liability (dealing with securities fraud) for not saying something, when you had knowledge and something akin to a duty to disclose. There’s a Supreme Court case (Leidos, Inc. v. Indiana Public Retirement System) pending that may resolve the issue.
Is a corporation’s failure to say something in itself information, and if so, is that silence itself information that must be governed in order to be compliant? How do you manage/govern silence?
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