The rulings against foreign plaintiffs in other cases make the Vivendi shareholder class action trial all the more extraordinary. Not only have the plaintiffs lawyers, led by Arthur Abbey of Abbey Spanier Rodd & Abrams, convinced Manhattan federal district court judge Richard Holwell to include shareholders from France, The Netherlands, and England in the class, they have managed to bring the case before a jury, in a trial that started this week.
As we’ve noted before, f-cubed securities class action trials come around about as often as the Cubs win a World Series, so we tracked down the trial transcript for those of you who can’t be in the courtroom. At the beginning of his opening, Abbey promised to prove three points in the course of the trial.
