Legal Opinion
Cape Ann Investors v. Lepone
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 10, 2002No. 01-2622PublishedCited by 167 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
We confront here two intricate variations on a standard theme — the invocation of a limitations defense to federal securities claims. The general scenario is distressingly familiar: shareholders of a publicly-held company allege that the corporate officers systematically inflated earnings, concealed losses, and treated the company’s books as works of fiction. The shareholders further allege that their natural guardians — the company’s outside accountants — perpetuated this massive fraud through perfunctory audits and certified financial statements that they knew (or…
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