Federal Securities Law Claims Trimmed In Navient Investor Suit

Mealey's (January 31, 2019, 2:48 PM EST) -- WILMINGTON, Del. — A federal judge in Delaware on Jan. 29 ruled that shareholders have sufficiently pleaded a majority, but not all, facts in support of their claims that one of the United States’ largest servicers of student loans, certain of its officers and directors and underwriters of two of its public offerings of stock misrepresented the company’s business operations and financial results in violation of federal securities laws (Lord Abbett Affiliated Fund Inc., et al. v. Navient Corp., et al., No. 16-112, D. Del., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 13843)....