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U.S. Supreme Court to Hear NVIDIA and Facebook Appeals on Securities Fraud Claims

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The United States Supreme Court is about to decide on two cases brought by NVIDIA and Meta (Facebook) to avoid legal action against them for fraud on securities. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear NVIDIA's arguments on November 13 regarding the dismissal attempt of the securities class action lawsuit. Swedish investment firm E. Ohman J:eek:r Fonder AB claims NVIDIA misled investors in 2017-2018 by understating its revenue dependency on cryptocurrency mining. NVIDIA's stand lies in the plaintiff's failure to meet the criteria established by the 1995 Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Earlier this year, NVIDIA settled with the U.S. regulatory authority to pay $5.5 million to settle charges about the poor reporting of crypto mining's impact on its gaming segment.

The Supreme Court is also set to adjudicate the case brought by Facebook to dismiss the securities lawsuit where investors led by Amalgamated Bank accused the company of deceiving them by not revealing a 2015 data breach that involved Cambridge Analytica and which, in turn, affected more than 30 million users. The case came to the fore after Facebook's stock tanked in the light of reports about Cambridge Analytica's misuse of user data during the 2016 Trump campaign. Facebook maintains it wasn't obliged to disclose past breaches in risk statements, as these are supposedly forward-looking. The company had previously paid $100 million in penalty to the SEC and $5 billion to the FTC over the same issue. Recently, three Supreme Court decisions in June had eroded federal regulators, namely the SEC which is the principal regulator of securities fraud, and appear to bring more limitations to the power of private plaintiffs to be able to enforce federal rules set out for corporate misconduct.



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I thought there was no Political commentary allowed on TPU?
 
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Big companies misusing people…. Strange how that has worked be it government, companies, or whoever with power…
 
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I thought there was no Political commentary allowed on TPU?
Did a post get deleted? Or are you refering to just the news post? They are allowed to cover tech news of course, and there is no commentary in that post that I can see, just the facts of it.
 
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I thought there was no Political commentary allowed on TPU?
This is a legal article not political. The SCOTUS is not a part of the political system, it's a part of the judiciary system.

Did a post get deleted? Or are you refering to just the news post? They are allowed to cover tech news of course.
Exactly. Tech related news is tech related.
 
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The SCOTUS is not a part of the political system, it's a part of the judiciary system.
True but its been making increasingly politically driven rulings, or so it is viewed by some anyways.

At any rate this thread is already a tinderbox/minefield. Tread lightly.
 
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True but its been making increasingly politically driven rulings, or so it is viewed by some anyways.
Fair point!

At any rate this thread is already a tinderbox/minefield. Tread lightly.
I think we can avoid it here as the topic is about the activities of NV and FB engaging in unlawful, possibly criminal activities. With both companies, I personally think they're both guilty. They both thought they could wiggle across a certain set of lines and are now trying to wiggle out of the penalties for breaking the rule of law. I hope SCOTUS gives them both a harsh smack-down to put them both in their places and send a message to other companies.
 
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This is still regatding the 2017-2018th years. NVidia surely gained their initial unstopable momentum, during that period. But the real "fat", has been gained by nVidia and such, during the C19 times, and global supply disaster. This was the time, when nVidia (AMD, and other) was reporting 70%+ of never before insane profit margins, that these companies and their investors have set as a bottom minimal line.
How that doesn’t gather any attention, is still a mistery. That was the era of deliberate and open scam and gouging, that has set these unreal prices and margins in stone.
 
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I wonder what kind of fine would actually hurt nvidia at this moment in time
 
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None, that they cannot afford. They wouldn't like to loose money, and would probably do everything to soften the punishment, but they will still be able to pay any, even the biggest fine in the history of IT, since no company has yet the mass of trillions of bucks. And who (regulators/government) would bite such enormous corporation, if they can sting it, and pump some juice for themselves.
 
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It's really hard to comment on this without sounding political, because SCOTUS has made so many decisions lately that are politically motivated.

Hopefully the court can see past politics and make sure these companies are held accountable for their deceptive practices.
 
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