Legal & controls
Item 3 and Item 9A as filed · every verdict is the registrant’s own sentence, printed below it · a filing that fails an extraction gate reads “not extracted”
| Fiscal year | Filed | Item 3 | ICFR | disclosure controls | material weakness | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-31 | 2025-12-23 | in the notes | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · From time to time, we are a party to various lawsuits, arbitrations or mediations that arise in the ordinary course of business. The disclosure called for by Part I, Item 3 regarding our legal proceedings is incorporated by reference herein from Note 17 – Commitments and Contingencies of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in this Annual Report. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on this evaluation, management concluded that internal control over financial reporting was effective as of October 31, 2025. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report. | ||||||
| 2024-10-31 | 2024-12-23 | in the notes | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · From time to time, we are a party to various lawsuits, arbitrations or mediations that arise in the ordinary course of business. The disclosure called for by Part I, Item 3 regarding our legal proceedings is incorporated by reference herein from Note 18 – Commitments and Contingencies of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in this Annual Report. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on this evaluation, management concluded that internal control over financial reporting was effective as of October 31, 2024. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report. | ||||||
| 2023-10-31 | 2023-12-21 | in the notes | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · From time to time, we are a party to various lawsuits, arbitrations or mediations that arise in the ordinary course of business. The disclosure called for by Part II, Item 3 regarding our legal proceedings is incorporated by reference herein from Note 18 – Commitments and Contingencies of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in this Annual Report. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on this evaluation, management concluded that internal control over financial reporting was effective as of October 31, 2023. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report. | ||||||
| 2022-10-31 | 2022-12-22 | in the notes | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · From time to time, we are a party to various lawsuits, arbitrations or mediations that arise in the ordinary course of business. The disclosure called for by Part II, Item 3 regarding our legal proceedings is incorporated by reference herein from Note 17 – Commitments and Contingencies of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in this Annual Report. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on this evaluation, management concluded that internal control over financial reporting was effective as of October 31, 2022. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report. | ||||||
| 2021-10-31 | 2022-01-10 | described here | effective | effective | remediated (prior year) | EDGAR |
Item 3 · We are from time to time involved in legal proceedings arising in the normal course of business. Other than proceedings incidental to our business, we are not a party to, nor is any of our property the subject of, any material pending legal proceedings, and no such proceedings are, to our knowledge, contemplated by governmental authorities. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on this evaluation, management concluded that internal control over financial reporting was effective as of October 31, 2021. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report. Item 9A · material weakness · Remediation of Material Weakness. | ||||||
5 of 5 annual reports on record have their filing text cached on this host; the rest are listed with their EDGAR link and no extraction, because this surface never fetches from SEC on a page load.
- Item 3 and Item 9A are located in the filing HTML already cached on this host and read with the same line-anchored item matcher and largest-gap body disambiguation the filing-narrative pass uses for Item 1A and Item 7 — no fetch, no model, no summarization.
- A heading is accepted as a section only when it is not a table-of-contents row (a trailing page number), not a quoted reference in prose, and names its own section; the span must then clear a per-item length band and carry readable text after the heading. Anything that fails a gate is served as 'not extracted' with the reason — never as a default value.
- An effectiveness conclusion is read only from a sentence that names its own control set (disclosure controls and procedures, or internal control over financial reporting) and states an outcome. Conditional sentences — the standard limitations paragraph and forward-looking remediation language — are excluded, because they are hypotheses rather than conclusions.
- When a filing's own sentences disagree — an effective conclusion beside an unremediated material-weakness disclosure, or two conclusions of opposite sign — no verdict is asserted. A wrong 'controls were effective' reading is worse than no reading.
- Every verdict is shown beside the verbatim sentence it was read from. The excerpt is the filing's own words, capped at 1,200 characters; the filing itself is one link away.