Appeals Court Halts ‘Hot News’ Publishing Order

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A federal appeals court on Thursday lifted a lower court’s order that a well-known financial news aggregator delay publication of prominent financial analysts’ buy and sell recommendations — stock picks that allowed the well-to-do the first crack at capitalizing on that trading research. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the lower court’s March injunction against Theflyonthewall. The 3-year-old litigation, brought by Barclays Capital, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and others, was premised on the so-called “hot news” doctrine the Supreme Court first recognized in a 1918 case concerning the unauthorized and immediate republication of wire service reports . The appeals court essentially stayed a New York federal judge’s ruling that Theflyonthewall breached the doctrine, which allows suits for re-reporting time sensitive “hot news.” The banks’ research that…


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