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Securities,
Civil Litigation

Oct. 1, 2021

Are investors misled if they only read the headline?

“You have unreasonable investors unreasonably relying on immaterial statements,” Riccardo Mauro DeBari, a partner at Thompson Hine LLP, argued in federal court.

A federal judge on Thursday expressed major concerns whether Vaxart, a biotechnology company based in San Francisco, and Armistice Capital, a hedge fund that was once its largest shareholder, have to face a securities lawsuit that says they exaggerated the prospects of a COVID-19 vaccine.

While company insiders and Armistice walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars, U.S. District Judge $95

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