Blinder, Robinson & Co. v. Securities & Exchange Commission

How later courts describe this case

• refusing to consider post-trial recantations of information found in suppressed material when making materiality determination
• giving less deference when the only security threat is the incident about which plaintiff complains
• O'Connor, J., joined by Rehnquist, C.J., and Kennedy, J., dissenting from denial of petition for writ of certiorari
• Victim gave only direct evidence identifying the defendant, a black man, as her assailant, and the prosecution withheld the fact that she had originally stated that the culprit was white