A Merrill spokeswoman declined to comment, citing rules against public material statements between the deal's announcement and its completion.
Another state judge that year imposed $5,000 in sanctions and ordered the firm to pay $14,500 in attorneys' fees, ruling that "misrepresentation of the material statements here was outrageous".
"The standard for a false or misleading advertisement is whether the ad makes a material statement that is likely to mislead the consumer," said Kent R. Middleton, an advertising professor at the University of Georgia.
Under the SEC's rules, you can't make a false material statement or not give enough context in making a statement to make sure it's not misleading.
Ravitch considers "entirely reasonable" the efforts begun in the 60's to eliminate from educational materials statements that demeaned and stereotyped women as well as minorities.
Even when the relativization to other background material object statements isn't explicit, the probability statement would seem to be implicitly relative to some background assumption of material normality.
This is something that Lewis arguably denied, as we shall see in the next two sections, by arguing that there can be conditionals about expected experience (constituting the empirical content of material object statements) the antecedents of which consist solely of statements about experience that can be given and thus certain for us).
The latter, on the other hand, if true, are analytically true, knowable a priori, with zero intension, and entailed by any statement whatsoever, and so can hardly constitute the empirical meaning of contingently true material object statements.
Papadopoulos "made material false statements and material omissions" during a Jan . 27interview with the FBI, according to the statement.
Don't include defamatory material (eg statements showing someone in a negative or disparaging way).
The G4S advert says the civilian investigators to be based in Nuneaton, Rugby and Leamington will investigate crime, gather evidence, seize and view evidential material, take statements from victims and witnesses, undertake house-to-house inquiries, prepare files for the Crown Prosecution Services, attend court hearings and give evidence, and identify and trace offenders.
