Stephen L. Carter, Columnist

Supreme Court Says You Can Keep Ignoring Financial Disclosures

It’s a win for everyone who throws investment fund reports straight into the recycling bin.

February 28, 2020 at 1:00 PM UTC

Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a professor of law at Yale University and author of “Invisible: The Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster.”

Just ignore it.
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You know all those reports you get in the mail from investment funds and toss in a drawer or the shredder? Not your balances, but the detailed notices about investment strategies and the like? The U.S. Supreme Court just gave you another reason not to read them.

Seriously.