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   "text": "If section 7216 is enacted and covers section 10(b), the United States could become a magnet for global class actions, and US lawyers would benefit from securities litigation tourism much as UK lawyers have benefited from libel tourism.",
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   "text": "The lack of securities class actions in European jurisdictions creates a void that increases the incentives for forum shopping by plaintiffs' lawyers.",
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   "text": "If section 7216 becomes law and permits extraterritorial application of US antifraud provisions, it would further incentivize forum shopping by plaintiffs' attorneys.",
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   "text": "Over time, extraterritorial US securities litigation may drive European jurisdictions to adopt portions of US law in order to discourage forum shopping, a form of legal assimilation.",
   "abstract": "portions of US law in order to discourage forum shopping.",
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   "text": "Permitting Section 10(b) suits over dually listed securities traded outside the United States would undermine Morrison's own policy rationale, because it would interfere with the laws of other countries and turn the United States into a haven for plaintiffs' lawyers suing over foreign exchange purchases.",
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   "text": "If the presence of a single U.S. party sufficed to locate a privately negotiated derivative transaction in the United States, U.S. parties could sue in U.S. courts regardless of other factors such as where the counterparties were located.",
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   "text": "Non-U.S. investors have a strong incentive to route foreign trades through U.S. brokers if that preserves a U.S. cause of action, because their home jurisdictions rarely offer the attractive features of the U.S. system such as broad discovery, higher damages, class actions, and no exposure to defendants' costs.",
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   "text": "Because Morrison limits U.S. securities law to transactions inside the United States, plaintiffs' attorneys are predicted to look increasingly to European countries and other venues in which to file securities class actions and similar suits.",
   "abstract": "As a result of the Morrison decision, limiting application of U.S. securities laws to transactions inside the United States, plaintiffs' attorneys may increasingly look to European coun- tries and other venues to file securities class actions and simi- lar suits.",
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