That alleged facts are critical to a business's core operations does not support a strong inference that the company's chief officers had knowledge of those facts for purposes of satisfying the scienter pleading standard of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Contributed in 2008 & last edited in 2009 by David Gold
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