Judge Rules Nvidia Investor Fraud Lawsuit Can Proceed as Class Action U.S. District Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. of the Northern District of California certified the class in In re Nvidia Corporation Securities Litigation (Case No. 4:18-cv-07669-HSG), clearing the case to move forward as a collective action on behalf of investors who bought or acquired Nvidia common stock between Aug. 10, 2017, and Nov. 15, 2018. Plaintiffs allege that Nvidia and CEO Jensen Huang made materially misleading statements to investors during that period, specifically by downplaying how much of the company’s Gaming-segment GPU revenue came from cryptocurrency miners rather than …