Section 18 creates potential civil liability for misleading statements filed with the Commission, but provides the defendant with the defense that "he acted in good faith and had no knowledge that such statement was false or misleading". 15 U.S.C. 78r.
Jack Montague's civil lawsuit, filed on Thursday in the US district court for Connecticut, claims that the female involved – referred to by the pseudonym "Jane Roe" – was "misled" into filing a formal complaint of sexual misconduct against him.
Montague's lawsuit says Gleason caused Roe to believe the past incident was also sexual assault, "misleading" her into filing a formal complaint against him.
Two months later, Lone Star sued him, contending that because he had filed misleading proxy materials he should be prohibited from voting any proxies.
It recently agreed to pay $2 million to resolve an investigation by the Department of Justice into whether the firm had "filed misleading pleadings, affidavits, and mortgage assignments in the state and federal courts in New York".
At the hearing, Scott D. Sullivan, WorldCom's former chief financial officer, and Buford Yates Jr., the former director of general accounting, pleaded not guilty on several counts of securities fraud and filing misleading information with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The use of only half the studies on file is misleading: a positive correlation between S.A.T. scores and college grades is found when data from all the studies on file are averaged.
(Dr. Tiller's lawyers, who have called Dr. McHugh's description of the patient files "deeply misleading," declined to discuss their contents).
When news of the Keats affair broke, London Welsh stressed that the New Zealander was in no way responsible for the situation, which involved a raft of misleading nationality information being filed to the RFU – and a six-hour hearing took place in London on Tuesday.
Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Federal District Court in Manhattan issued a supplemental order saying that the S.E.C. appeared to file a "materially misleading" request with the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit earlier this week, when the commission sought an emergency halt to further proceedings in the case.
