Public companies have long bemoaned the reasonable investor test, arguing that materiality should be judged instead by reference to quantitative or other bright-line measures, so as to simplify companies' disclosure choices and provide a basis for dismissal of securities litigation at the pleadings or summary judgment phase.
The materiality of John Doe's possible testimony must be determined by reference to the offense charged in Count 2 and the evidence relating to that count.
These references were replaced by references to a rival report, financed in part by the American Petroleum Institute.
Thus, as Justice THOMAS' dissent shows, the Basic opinion is shot through with references to the necessary materiality.
"The decision was that it was a new category — we'll see how it goes over time; if it reaches the materiality position then we'll think about it," said Williams in reference to why they didn't disclose sales numbers for the Watch.
Through reference to contemporary strands of geographic scholarship, from Gibson-Graham's (2006) work on diverse economies to authors such as Bingham and Hinchliffe (2008) and Whatmore (2006) on human and more-than-human materialities, the authors seek to focus attention on assemblages, embodiment and risk in understanding pastoralism and pastoral economies.
The proposal removes any existing discussion of materiality in Chapter 3 and replaces it with a broad reference to the U.S. Supreme Court's definition of materiality.
The song suggests stuckness is owed only to circumstance, to materiality.
The Supreme Court has consistently resisted providing more precision to materiality, despite efforts by companies seeking some definitive meaning to the term in certain contexts.
Nor is social practice isolated from, or prior to, materiality.
