Monday, September 8, 2008

Toll Bros. Loses Appeal, Lawsuit Proceeds

Publication Date: Saturday September 06, 2008
Business/Financial Desk; Section C; Page 2; Column
c. 2008 New York Times Company

By BLOOMBERG NEWS

Toll Brothers, the largest United States luxury homebuilder, lost a bid to have a shareholders' securities-fraud lawsuit against it dismissed. Investors who bought shares in the company from December 2004 to November 2005 made claims specific enough in their complaint to survive Toll Brothers' motion to dismiss it, a United States District Court judge in Philadelphia, James T. Giles, said in his order. He did not rule on the merits of the claims. The plaintiffs alleged that the company and individual defendants misrepresented or omitted facts "regarding, but not limited to, traffic, demand and defendants' ability to add new selling communities in fiscal year 2005," the judge wrote.

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