A federal appeals court handed a major defeat to Wall Street banks in ruling that a financial news service did not misappropriate their analyst research for its website.
“Monday’s ruling is a defeat for Bank of America Corp’s Merrill Lynch unit, Barclays Plc and Morgan Stanley, which argued that Theflyonthewall.com was getting a ‘free ride’ by systematically misappropriating research, including upgrades and downgrades on stocks.
“The appeals court ordered the lower court to dismiss the banks’ misappropriation claim.
“‘A firm’s ability to make news — by issuing a recommendation that is likely to affect the market price of a security — does not give rise to a right for it to control who breaks that news and how,’ Judge Robert Sack wrote for a three-judge appeals court panel.”
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