Law360, New York (September 04, 2012, 10:13 AM ET) -- The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently held that even if a stock recovers its value after dropping following a corrective disclosure, a showing of loss causation is not necessarily negated at the pleading stage in a claim for securities fraud, in Acticon AG, et al. v. China North East Petroleum Holdings Ltd., et al., No. 11-4544-cv (2nd Cir., August 1, 2012).
In Acticon, the plaintiffs filed a class action complaint for securities fraud against China North East Petroleum. Plaintiffs alleged that...