scac.db: The Securities Class Action Clearinghouse (SCAC)

In br00t999/scac.database.downloader: Download the SCAC database

Description

The Securities Class Action Clearinghouse (SCAC) provides detailed information relating to the prosecution, defense, and settlement of federal class action securities fraud litigation.

The SCAC team maintains a Filings database of more than 4,000 securities class action lawsuits filed since passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The database also contains copies of complaints, briefs, dispositive orders, and other litigation-related materials filed in these cases.

The SCAC offers regular email notifications of new securities class action filings and news. Institutional investors with more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management are registered with the SCAC to receive automatic notices of litigation developments that may affect investments in their portfolios. Hundreds of attorneys, executives, scholars, and media personnel have also registered with the SCAC. If you would like to receive email notifications, please register http://securities.stanford.edu/about-the-scac.html#register.

Usage

scac.db

Format

A data.frame with 3000+ rows and 14 variables

• FilingName: name of the filing

• FilingDate: filing date

• DistrictCourt: court

• Exchange: exchange

• Ticker: ticker symbol

• CaseSummary: summmary

• Sector: sector

• Industry: industry

• Headquarters: headquarters location

• FirstIdentifiedComplainant: first identified complainant

• Judge: presiding judge

• PlaintiffFirms: plaintiff law firms

• CaseLink: link to full case details

• FetchDate: date record was last fetched on

Source

The Securities Class Action Clearinghouse (SCAC) http://securities.stanford.edu/

br00t999/scac.database.downloader documentation built on May 25, 2019, 3:25 p.m.