Class of Investors Certified in Securities Fraud Case Against Carbonite

The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts certified a class of investors in a securities fraud case pending against Carbonite, a software company now owned by OpenText. The action alleges that Carbonite and several of its senior executives falsely touted a “super strong” and “extremely competitive” data backup product in public presentations and investor conference calls between October 2018 and July 2019. Plaintiff alleges that the product never worked as intended. Carbonite eventually withdrew the product from the market on July 25, 2019.  The next day, Carbonite’s stock price fell more than 24%.

Partner Samuel H. Rudman leads a Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP litigation team that has been representing lead plaintiff Construction Industry and Laborers’ Joint Pension Trust. In 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversed the district court’s prior dismissal of the case.

Robbins Geller attorneys Samuel H. Rudman, David A. Rosenfeld, Robert D. Gerson, and Vincent M. Serra are representing lead plaintiff Construction Industry and Laborers’ Joint Pension Trust.

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The Firm is ranked #1 on the most recent ISS Securities Class Action Services Top 50 Report for recovering more than $1.75 billion for investors in 2022 – the third year in a row Robbins Geller tops the list. And in those three years alone, Robbins Geller recovered nearly $5.3 billion for investors, more than double the amount recovered by any other plaintiffs’ firm. The Firm secured the largest-ever securities fraud class action settlement — $7.2 billion — in In re Enron Corp. Securities Litigation.

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Luna v. Carbonite, Inc., 2023 WL 4539855 (D. Mass. July 14, 2023).