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Musk Loses Bid to Thwart Investor Suit Over Twitter Purchase

Elon Musk failed to fend off an investor lawsuit claiming he manipulated the stock price of Twitter Inc. months before he bought the company in 2022 by concealing how much stock he’d acquired. A Manhattan federal judge on Friday said …

US Supreme Court Tosses Case Involving Securities Fraud Suit Against Nvidia

The U.S. Supreme Court sidestepped on Wednesday a decision on whether to allow shareholders to proceed with a securities fraud lawsuit accusing artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia of misleading investors about how much of its sales depended on the volatile cryptocurrency …

Meta Must Face Investor Suit After Supreme Court Drops Case

The US Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by Meta Platforms Inc., leaving it to face a lawsuit that accuses the company of misleading shareholders about the data-harvesting scandal involving political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. Investors claim the company, then known …

US Supreme Court to Hear Facebook Bid to Escape Securities Fraud Suit

The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to consider a bid by Meta’s Facebook to scuttle a federal securities fraud lawsuit brought by shareholders who accused the social media platform of misleading them about the misuse of its user …

Facebook, Nvidia Ask Supreme Court to Spare Them From Securities Fraud Suits

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider bids by two tech giants – Meta’s Facebook and Nvidia – to fend off federal securities fraud lawsuits in separate cases that could make it harder for private litigants to hold companies …

US DOJ Charges British Man Over ‘Hack-to-Trade’ Scheme

A British man has been arrested and charged by U.S. authorities with hacking into the computers of five companies to obtain details about their expected earnings, and making $3.75 million of illegal profit by trading before results were released. The …

Kansas Man Sentenced for Securities Fraud

Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt announced that a Wichita man has been sentenced to prison for securities fraud. Jesse Wayne Harris, age 36, was sentenced in Sedgwick County District Court on August 20 to 30 months in prison for three …

Supreme Court to Hear Nvidia Bid to Scuttle Shareholder Lawsuit

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a bid by Nvidia to scuttle a securities fraud lawsuit accusing the artificial intelligence chipmaker of misleading investors about how much of its sales went to the volatile cryptocurrency industry. The …

In Tesla Autopilot Probe, US Prosecutors Focus on Securities, Wire Fraud

U.S. prosecutors are examining whether Tesla committed securities or wire fraud by misleading investors and consumers about its electric vehicles’ self-driving capabilities, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems assist with steering, braking …

Supreme Court Won’t Hear Elon Musk Dispute Over SEC Settlement

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear Elon Musk’s bid to throw out part of a securities fraud settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission restricting the billionaire businessman’s public statements about his electric car company Tesla. The …