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Cooley Wins Appeal for IonQ in Securities Fraud Class Action

April 8, 2025

Cooley secured an appellate win on behalf of IonQ, a quantum computing hardware and software company, in the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, affirming the original dismissal of the securities class action and ruling that plaintiffs cannot adequately plead loss causation by relying on a self-interested short-seller report based on anonymous sources.

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Ryan Blair
Partner, San Diego
Koji Fukumura
Partner, San Diego
David E. Mills
Partner, Washington, DC
Kathleen R. Hartnett
Partner, San Francisco
Elizabeth Wright
Special Counsel, Boston
Caitlin B. Munley
Associate, Washington, DC
Linh Nguyen
Associate, San Diego
Allison Wettstein O’Neill
Associate, San Diego
Jessica Taylor
Associate, San Diego
Vivienne Pismarov
Associate, San Diego

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Cooley Secures Another Win for IonQ in Securities Fraud Class Action

July 10, 2024

Cooley secured another win on behalf of IonQ, a quantum computing hardware and software company, when a district court issued an order denying the plaintiffs’ attempt to amend their complaint and request that the court reconsider its prior dismissal with prejudice of a consolidated securities fraud class action.

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Koji Fukumura
Partner, San Diego
Ryan Blair
Partner, San Diego
David E. Mills
Partner, Washington, DC
Elizabeth Wright
Special Counsel, Boston
Caitlin B. Munley
Associate, Washington, DC
Linh Nguyen
Associate, San Diego
Jessica Taylor
Associate, San Diego
Vivienne Pismarov
Associate, San Diego

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Cooley Secures Complete Victory for IonQ in Securities Fraud Class Action

October 6, 2023

Cooley represented IonQ, a quantum computing hardware and software company, in a consolidated securities fraud class action initially brought by former investor Michael Leacock.

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Koji Fukumura
Partner, San Diego
Ryan Blair
Partner, San Diego
David E. Mills
Partner, Washington, DC
Elizabeth Wright
Special Counsel, Boston
Caitlin B. Munley
Associate, Washington, DC
Linh Nguyen
Associate, San Diego
Jessica Taylor
Associate, San Diego
Vivienne Pismarov
Associate, San Diego

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Cooley Team Secures Another Win for National Association of Realtors

August 21, 2023

Cooley, alongside a team from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, secured a summary judgment victory for the National Association of Realtors (NAR) in a high-stakes antitrust case brought against NAR and Zillow.

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Ethan Glass
Partner, Washington, DC
Beatriz Mejia
Partner, San Francisco
Dee Bansal
Partner, Washington, DC
Elizabeth Wright
Special Counsel, Boston
Samantha Strauss
Associate, Chicago
Sarah M. Topol
Associate, New York
Georgina Inglis
Associate, Washington, DC
Joyce Rodriguez-Luna
Associate, New York
Anne Bigler
Associate, New York
Mike Tetreault
Associate, San Diego
Ariana E. Bustos
Associate, Los Angeles
Courtney Fisher
Senior Paralegal, Washington, DC
Jay McCune
Paralegal Specialist, San Francisco

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Cooley Challenges New Federal Execution Regulations

December 23, 2020

Cooley has filed a complaint on behalf of the Federal Capital Habeas Project and four inmates who have been sentenced to death seeking an immediate stay of new US Department of Justice regulations that govern the manner of federal executions and unlawfully eliminate critical safeguards restricting how the federal government executes individuals. The lawsuit asserts that, by providing new and wide-ranging powers to the US attorney general, the final rule violates the US Constitution, the Federal Death Penalty Act and the Administrative Procedure Act in multiple respects. Lawyers Elizabeth Prelogar, Elizabeth Wright, Elias Kim, Colin Scott and Jenny Elkin lead the Cooley effort.

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Elizabeth Wright
Special Counsel, Boston

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