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182198P.pdf 03/01/2019 Jesse Campbell v. Transgenomic, Inc.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 18-2198
U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Lincoln
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Beam and Erickson, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Securities Law. In a class action alleging defendants
violated Section 14(a) and 20(a) of the Securities and Exchange Act and
SEC Rule 14a-9 by disseminating a false and materially misleading proxy
statement that failed to give Transgenomic shareholders an accurate
financial picture of Precipio, the company with which it was merging, a
reasonable investor may have viewed disclosure of Precipio's net
income/loss as having significantly altered the total mix of information
made availabile, and the district court erred in resolving the materiality
of the omission as a matter of law; issues as to whether a "revenue table"
was misleading were also questions for the trier of fact; further
plaintiffs' Section 20(a) claim against Transgenomic's former CEO were
sufficiently pleaded to state a claim to relief that was plausible on its
fact, and the Section 20(a) claim should not have been dismissed.