That's right – it's the moment we've all been waiting for.  The Court has granted cert in Goldman Sachs v. Arkansas Teachers Retirement System.  (Oh, I think there was some other stuff about not throwing out 20 million presidential votes in four states).

In any event, here are the questions presented by the petition:

(1) Whether a defendant in a securities class action may rebut the presumption of classwide reliance recognized in Basic Inc. v. Levinson by pointing to the generic nature of the alleged misstatements in showing that the statements had no impact on the price of the security, even though that evidence is also relevant to the substantive element of materiality; and (2) whether a defendant seeking to rebut the Basic presumption has only a burden of production or also the ultimate burden of persuasion.

I may or may not have more to say later but for those interested, my blog post about the Second Circuit opinion is here, and you can read all of the cert briefing here.