( August 7, 2026, 10:18 AM EDT) -- TRENTON, N.J. — A federal judge in New Jersey denied a motion to dismiss investors’ putative class complaint alleging that three real estate investment trusts (REITs) and their external advisers and directors misled shareholders through proxy statements that omitted material information about charter amendments delaying liquidation and benefiting the REITs’ controlling executive, finding the omissions to be material....