A U.S. federal court on Tuesday dismissed a securities fraud lawsuit against Intel that shareholders filed after the chipmaker's stock price fell more than 40 percent in one month in 2000.
The lawsuit, led by the Hawaii Reinforcing Iron Workers Pension Trust Fund, accused Intel executives of making false and misleading statements about quarterly revenue projections and products that artificially inflated the stock price.
The U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., granted Intel's motion to dismiss the lawsuit. It said there is no evidence that Intel executives knew that statements about products and demand were false.
In addition, the court ruled that language the company had used that cautioned that the projections were forward-looking shielded Intel from liability.
The shareholders had maintained that Intel should be held liable for statements made by investment analysts who provided optimistic guidance to investors, but the court disagreed.
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