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Ubiquitous motivations not enough: Motivations that are...

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Motivations that are extremely common among businesses and people involved in business are insufficient to support a strong inference of scienter as required by the pleading standard of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Contributed in 2009 & last edited in 2009 by David Gold

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