Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Wherehouse Entertainment, Inc. v. McMahan & Co.
501 U.S. 1249
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1991-06-28
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- declining to apply state statute of limitations to Rule 10b-5 actions because federal statutes are a closer analogy than state law
- comparing scope of these three sections and stating, in dictum, that § 12(2) would apply to an open market transaction
- reading the entire record to find waiver of the right to testify because counsel and not the court is responsible for the formulation of trial strategy
- borrowing § 13 statute of limitations as the closer analogue for § 10(b)
- describing three year requirement of § 13 as being in the nature of a statute of repose, and one year discovery requirement as being in the nature of a statute of limitation
- magistrate who was not authorized to preside over jury selection according to new interpretation of the statute
- "disclosure required by the securities laws is measured not by literal truth, but by the ability of the material to accurately inform rather than mislead prospective buyers"
- describing a typical “daisy chain” scheme for evading the tax
Citator
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- Authority status
- pending
- Cited by
- 143 opinions
C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied.