Wendy Gerwick Couture

University of Idaho College of Law

James E. Wilson Distinguished Professor of Law

PO Box 83720

Boise, ID 83720-0051

United States

http://www.uidaho.edu/law/people/faculty/wgcouture

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1.

White Collar Crime's Gray Area: The Anomaly of Criminalizing Conduct Not Civilly Actionable

Albany Law Review, Vol. 72, p. 1, 2009
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 07 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2011
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 380 (109,272)

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white collar crime, civil-criminal divide, securities regulation

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Securities Regulation of Alternative Litigation Finance

Securities Regulation Law Journal, Vol. 42, p. 5, 2014
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 19 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2014
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 358 (116,818)

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Securities Regulation, Alternative Litigation Finance, Litigation Funding, Investment Contract, Howey

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The PSLRA Discovery Stay Meets Complex Litigation: Five Questions Answered

Securities Regulation Law Journal, Vol. 42, p. 243, 2014
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 17 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2014
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 276 (153,647)

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Securities Litigation, PSLRA, Discovery Stay, Complex Litigation, Civil Procedure

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Criminal Securities Fraud and the Lower Materiality Standard

Securities Regulation Law Journal, Vol. 41, p. 77, 2013.
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 21 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2013
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 234 (180,805)

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White Collar Crime, Securities Fraud, Insider Trading, Materiality

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Prosecuting Securities Fraud Under Section 17(a)(2)

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Vol. 50, p. 669, 2019
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 25 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2019
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 221 (190,762)

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Securities Regulation, Securities Litigation, Securities Fraud, White Collar Crime

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Around the World of Securities Fraud in 80 Motions to Dismiss

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Vol. 45, p. 553, 2014
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 02 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2014
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 203 (206,569)

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Securities Fraud, Motions to Dismiss, Class Actions, PSLRA, Scienter, Materiality, Puffery

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False Statements of Belief as Securities Fraud

Securities Regulation Law Review, Vol. 43, p. 351, 2015
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 15 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2016
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 189 (220,123)

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Securities Fraud, Opinions, Omnicare

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Opinions Actionable as Securities Fraud

Louisiana Law Review, Vol. 73, p. 381, 2013
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 20 May 2012 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2013
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 124 (309,460)

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Securities Fraud, Securities Regulation, Securities Litigation, Opinions, Defamation

9.

The Collision Between the First Amendment and Securities Fraud

Alabama Law Review, Vol. 65, p. 903, 2014
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 07 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2014
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 123 (311,346)

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securities regulation, securities litigation, securities fraud, First Amendment, defamation

10.

Materiality and a Theory of Legal Circularity

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, Vol. 17, p. 453, 2015
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 22 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2015
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 122 (313,202)

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Securities Regulation, Securities Fraud, Materiality, Circularity, Self-Fufilling Prophecy, Rule of Law

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Top Ten Issues in De-SPAC Securities Litigation

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 10 Mar 2022
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 121 (315,133)

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securities litigation, special purpose acquisition companies, SPACs, securities fraud

12.

Cyan, Reverse-Erie, and the PSLRA Discovery Stay in State Court

Securities Regulation Law Journal, Vol. 47, p. 21, 2019
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 01 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 29 May 2019
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 107 (343,155)

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Securities Litigation, PSLRA, Discovery Stay, Preemption, Reverse-Erie

13.

Price Fraud

Baylor Law Review, Vol. 63, p. 1, 2011
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 31 Mar 2011
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 105 (347,525)

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Securities Fraud, Securities Pricing, Financial Crisis, Bubble

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Answering Halliburton II's Unanswered Question: Burdens of Production and Persuasion on Price Impact at Class Certification

Securities Regulation Law Journal, Vol. 43, p. 167, 2015
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 20 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2015
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 101 (356,662)

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Securities Litigation, Class Actions, Fraud-on-the-Market Presumption of Reliance, Price Impact, Halliburton, Wal-Mart, Federal Rule of Evidence 301, McDonnell Douglas

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Mixed Statements: The Safe Harbor's Rocky Shore

Securities Regulation Law Journal, Vol. 39, p. 257, 2011
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 15 Dec 2011
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 94 (373,280)

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securities litigation, forward-looking statements, safe harbor, Private Securities Litigation Reform Act

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Citing Counsel's Opinion About the Merits of Legal Proceedings in SEC Filings

Securities Regulation Law Journal, Vol. 46, p. 117, 2018
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 Sep 2018
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 83 (402,575)

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Securities Regulation, Securities and Exchange Commission, Disclosure, Legal Proceedings, Securities Fraud

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The Evolutionary Biology of Fungi and Fraud

John Marshall Law Journal, Vol. V, p.85, 2011
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 18 May 2011 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2011
Wendy Gerwick Couture and B. Clifford Gerwick
University of Idaho College of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 80 (411,352)

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mail fraud, wire fraud, white collar crime, legislation

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The Securities Acts' Treatment of Notes Maturing in Less than Nine Months: A Solution to the Enigma

Securities Regulation Law Journal, Vol. 31, p. 496, 2003
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 29 Mar 2011
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 77 (420,420)

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Security, Registration, Note, Commercial Paper, Family Resemblance Test

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Securities Regulation as Gap-Filler: The Example of Hydraulic Fracturing

Securities Regulation Law Journal, Vol. 41, p. 207, 2013.
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 19 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2013
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
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Securities Regulation, Disclosure, Proxy Access, Regulation, Natural Resources, Oil and Gas

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The Falsity-Scienter Inference

Securities Regulation Law Journal, Vol. 40, p. 303, 2012
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 03 Sep 2012
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
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Securities Regulation, Securities Litigation, Scienter, Falsity, Pleading

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RICO 2.0: State RICO Statutes in Opt-Out Securities Litigation

Securities Regulation Law Journal, Vol. 44, p. 51, 2016
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 14 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2016
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 68 (449,645)

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Securities Regulation, Securities Litigation, Racketeering, RICO, Opt-Out Litigation

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The End of the Vexatiousness Rationale

Securities Regulation Law Journal, Vol. 41, p. 301, 2013.
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 09 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2014
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 62 (471,107)

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Securities Regulation, Securities Litigation, Policy, Class Actions, Fraud-on-the-Market Presumption of Reliance

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Professor Alan R. Bromberg and the Scholarly Role of the Treatise

SMU Law Review, Vol. 68, p. 703, 2015
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 15 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2016
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 61 (474,916)

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Securities Fraud, Legal Scholarship, Role of Treatises

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Rest in Peace, Rule 505

Securities Regulation Law Journal, Vol. 45, p. 133, 2017
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 13 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2017
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 58 (486,458)

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Securities Regulation, Regulation D, SEC, Exemptions from Registration

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The Bank Bailout: A License for Sovereign Securities Fraud

Seattle University Law Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2009
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 29 Mar 2011
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 50 (519,467)

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Securities, Insider Trading, Bank Bailout

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Conley v. Gibson’s ‘No Set of Facts’ Test: Neither Cancer Nor Cure

Penn State Law Review – Penn Statim, Vol. 114, p. 19, 2010
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 29 Mar 2011
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 48 (528,436)

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Pleading, Factual Sufficiency, Legal Sufficiency, Twombly, Iqbal, Conley

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The Risk of Regulatory Arbitrage: A Response to Securities Regulation in Virtual Space

74 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. Online 234 (2018)
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 17 Feb 2018
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 47 (532,894)

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securities regulation, investment contract, howey, context clause, weaver

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Class Action Tolling, Federal Common Law, and Securities Statutes of Repose: A Recommendation

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Vol. 45, p. 525, 2015
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 29 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2015
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 44 (547,016)

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Securities Class Actions, Statutes of Repose, Class Action Tolling, American Pipe, IndyMac

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Loud Rules

Pepperdine Law Review, Vol. 34, p. 715, 2007
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 29 Mar 2011
Wendy Gerwick Couture and David Coale
University of Idaho College of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 43 (551,880)

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Holding, Dicta, Sanctions, Inherent Power

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Shapeshifting Securities

Securities Regulation Law Journal, Vol. 48, p. 320, 2020
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 22 Jan 2021
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 42 (556,865)

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Securities, Cryptocurrency, Digital Assets, Investment Contracts

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Optimal Issuer Disclosure of Opinions

University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 86, p.587, 2018
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 18 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2019
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 42 (556,865)

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Securities Regulation, Securities Litigation, Disclosure, Omnicare

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Texas Gulf Sulphur: A Case Study on Responding to Market Rumors

SMU Law Review, Vol. 71, p. 675, 2018
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 27 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2018
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 41 (561,986)

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Texas Gulf Sulphur, Securities Regulation, Market Rumors, Disclosure

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Price Impact Possibilities

Securities Regulation Law Journal, Vol. 44, p. 255, 2016
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 18 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 17 May 2017
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 38 (577,245)

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Securities Fraud, Reliance, Fraud-on-the-Market, Price Impact, Basic, Halliburton

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Data Set Appendix: Around the World of Securities Fraud in 80 Motions to Dismiss

Number of pages: 80 Posted: 03 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2014
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 37 (582,609)

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Securities Fraud, Motions to Dismiss, Class Actions, PSLRA, Scienter, Materiality

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A Glass-Half-Empty Approach to Securities Regulation

Maryland Law Review, Vol. 76, p. 360, 2017
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 18 May 2017
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 25 (656,651)

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Securities Regulation, Securities Litigation, Registration, Exemptions, Disclosure

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Principles for State Prosecution of Securities Crime in a Dual-Regulatory, Multi-Enforcer Regime

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2019
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 28 Jan 2020
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
Downloads 18 (709,531)

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Securities regulation, white collar crime

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Data Set Appendix: Optimal Issuer Disclosure of Opinions

in Optimal Issuer Disclosure of Opinions, __ U. CIN. L. REV. __ (2018 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 855 Posted: 23 Jan 2018
Wendy Gerwick Couture
University of Idaho College of Law
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Securities Regulation, Securities Litigation, Disclosure, Omnicare