For the next few weeks, we’ll be taking a deep dive on the Supreme Court’s tort cases. To begin, we’ll consider whether there is any relationship between the party which won at the Appellate Court and the result at the Supreme Court for the years 1990 through 1999.

The reversal rate for tort cases at the Supreme Court was around the same level at the beginning of the decade: 60% in 1990 and 50% in […]

Securities fraud litigation based on regulatory mishaps, environmental disasters, data breaches, sexual harassment revelations, the COVID-19 pandemic and other well-publicized events that affect stock prices has been on the rise in recent years, overtaking more traditional securities claims arising from accounting scandals and corporate fraud.1 Such “event-driven” securities litigation often relies on the theory that a company downplayed or failed to disclose known risks, and thereby inflated the value of its securities, only to see […]