University of Puerto Rico Retirement System v. Ocwen Financial Corporation

NEWSOM, Circuit Judge:

The University of Puerto Rico Retirement System purchased Ocwen Financial Corporation common stock at an allegedly inflated price after a series of statements by Ocwen's officers implied that the company would emerge from a regulatory mess. When Ocwen's stock price instead began to fall, the Retirement System brought a private securities-fraud action under §§ 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the SEC's Rule 10b-5, claiming that it had detrimentally relied on Ocwen's materially misleading statements and omissions concerning the likelihood of…