Legal Opinion
Florida State Board of Administration v. Green Tree Financial Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 25, 2001No. 99-3536, 99-3586 and 99-3587PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
In this case we must assess the sufficiency of three complaints under the new pleading standards made applicable to securities fraud cases by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, P.L. No. 104-67, 109 Stat. 737. The Florida State Board of Administration, which invests state employees’ pension funds, and two putative classes of investors, one for stock purchasers and one for option traders, have each brought Rule 10b-5 2 actions against Green Tree Financial Corporation, its CEO, Lawrence Coss, and other executives, 3 on the theory that they…
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