Macomb County Employees Retirement System v. Stratasys Ltd., No. 16-3264 (8th Cir. 2017)
Annotate this CaseStratasys shareholders filed a securities fraud action claiming several company promotional statements were knowingly false. The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's determination that these statements were mere puffery and that the shareholders failed to sufficiently plead that Stratasys knew its statements were false when made. In this case, the statements the shareholders claim were materially misleading were so vague and such obvious hyperbole that no reasonable investor would rely upon them. Therefore, without tying the timing of the knowledge to the allegedly misleading statements, the shareholders did not plead facts sufficient to support a strong inference of scienter.
Court Description: Benton, Author, with Loken and Murphy, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Securities Fraud. In this action by shareholders alleging defendant made knowingly false promotional statements, the district court did not err in finding the statements the shareholders relied on were so vague and such obvious hyperbole that no reasonable investor would rely on them; nor did the shareholders allege the necessary scienter, and the district court did not err in dismissing the action.
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