4th Circ. Latest To Curb Short-Seller Usage In Securities Suits

By Tim Fitzmaurice, Elizabeth Gingold Clark and Madeleine Juszynski Davidson ( May 16, 2025, 4:20 PM EDT) -- Frequently, a short seller issues a public report claiming that a public company has engaged in some type of wrongdoing, with the deliberate purpose of causing the public company's stock price to decline. The short seller issuing the report profits from the decline in the public company's stock because it has taken a short position on the stock, and their reports trade mostly in gossip and innuendo, rather than fact....

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