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In Re Wachovia Equity Securities Litigation, 08 Civ. 6171 (RJS)
Publication Date: 2011-04-07
Practice Area: Business Law
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Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
Judge: District Judge Richard J. Sullivan
Attorneys:
For plaintiff: The Equity Plaintiffs are represented by Ira M. Press, Andrew Martin McNeela, and Roger W. Kirby of Kirby McInerney LLP, New York, NY. The Stichting Plaintiffs are represented by Geoffrey Coyle, Jarvis, Jay W. Eisenhofer, and Michele S. Carino of Grant & Eisenhofer, P.A., New York, NY; and James Richard Banko of Grant & Eisenhofer, P A, Chase Manhattan Centre, Wilmington, DE. The FC Holdings Plaintiffs are represented by Daniel Arthur Cohen, Daniel Joseph Kornstein, and Amy Christine Gross of Kornstein Veisz Wexler & Pollard, LLP, New York, NY; JefIrey H. Squire of Bracewell & Patterson, LLP, Washington, DC; and Paul D. Wexler of Bragar, Wexler & Eagel, P.C., New York, NY. The Bond/Notes Plaintiffs represented by John J. Gross, Christopher L. Nelson, David Kessler, John Anthony Kehoe, and Benjamin J. Sweet of Barrowav Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check, LLP, Radnor, P A; Nichole Browning and Eric Donald Peterson of Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check, LLP, San Francisco, CA; Ramzi Abadou, Maureen Elizabeth Mueller, Lucas F. Olts, and John J. Rice of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Diego, CA; David Avi Rosenfeld of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Melville, NY; John Patrick Coffey, William Curtis Fredericks, Kurt Michael Hinciker, Christopher Chad Johnson, John James Rizio-Hamilton, and Jeroen Van Kwawegen of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, New York, NY; Jack Gerald Fruchter of Abraham Fruchter & Twersky LLP, New York, NY; Lionel Z. Glancy of Glancy & Binkow, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Michael Max Goldberg of the Law Offices of Michael Goldberg, New York, NY; Marc Ian Gross and Fei-Lu Qian of Pomerantz Haudek Block Grossman & Gross LLP, New York, NY.
For defendant: The Wachovia Defendants are represented by Douglas H. Flaum, Eric A. Hirsch, Israel David, and John W. Brewer of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, New York, NY. The Underwriter Defendants are represented by Alfred Robert Pietrzak, Patrick Michael McGuirk, Owen Harris Smith, and Saima S. Ahmed of Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY. Defendant KPMG is represented by Emmet Thomas Flood of Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, DC and Marshall Beil of McGuireWoods LLP, New York, NY.
Case number: 08 Civ. 6171 (RJS)

Cite as: In Re Wachovia Equity Securities Litigation, 08 Civ. 6171 (RJS), NYLJ 1202489220302, at *1 (SDNY, Decided March 31, 2011)District Judge Richard J. Sull

July 28, 2003 |

Securities Law

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 contains some good news for investors, extending the statute of limitations for securities claims. However, while time limits have been liberalized, the rules for applying these limits in individual cases remain a developing area of the law.
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July 26, 2004 |

Muise v. GPU, Inc., etc.

In granting class decertification, the judge correctly applied the standard for the class certification and, based on its liberal construction, in effect placed the burden on defendant to produce evidence that certification was inappropriate; where plaintiffs alleged damage by defendant's failure to meet electricity demands, decertification was proper based on the predominance of individual causation issues, although not for a limited class of customers affected by equipment failure at a substation.
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July 06, 2006 |

Second Circuit Bucks Trend on Arbitration Subpoenas

David Elsberg, a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, reviews a recent decision in which the Second Circuit broke ranks with its sister circuits by holding that, in the absence of an independent basis for exercising personal jurisdiction over a nonparty, a district court may not enforce an arbitration subpoena served beyond the geographical limitations set forth in FedRCivPro 45.
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November 25, 2009 |

Better Late Than Never

Plaintiff lawyers, including Coughlin Stoia's Sam Rudman, are shifting their attention back to securities fraud claims after focusing on cases related to the economic downturn.
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November 24, 2009 |

Securities Fraud Suits Against Public Companies Resurface

Plaintiffs lawyers are slapping public companies with securities class actions months or years after the date the alleged fraud came to light as they turn their attention from cases related to the financial meltdown back to traditional securities suits.
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In re Barclays Bank PLC Securities Litigation, 09 Civ. 1989 (PAC)
Publication Date: 2011-01-07
Practice Area: Business Law
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Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
Judge: District Judge Paul A. Crotty
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Case number: 09 Civ. 1989 (PAC)

Cite as: In re Barclays Bank PLC Securities Litigation, 09 Civ. 1989 (PAC), NYLJ 1202477434203, at *1 (SDNY, Decided January 5, 2011)District Judge Paul A. Crot

April 04, 2006 |

Topical Index to Federal Case Digests

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In Re Lehman Bros, 10-0712-cv
Publication Date: 2011-05-16
Practice Area: Business Law
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Judge: Before: Feinberg, Cabranes, and Raggi, C.JJ.
Attorneys:
For plaintiff: Joel P. Laitman, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, New York, New York (Michael B. Eisenkraft, Daniel B. Rehns, Kenneth M. Rehns, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, New York, New York; Steven J. Toll, Joshua S. Devore, Matthew B. Kaplan, S. Douglas Bunch, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for Lead Plaintiff-Appellant Locals 302 & 612 of the International Union of Operating Engineers—Employers Construction Industry Retirement Trust and Plaintiffs-Appellants New Jersey Carpenters Health Fund and Boilermakers-Blacksmith National Pension Trust. Joseph J. Tabacco, Jr., Berman DeValerio, San Francisco, California (Patrick T. Egan, Berman DeValerio, Boston, Massachusetts, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants Wyoming State Treasurer and Wyoming Retirement System. Lester L.Levy, Wolf Popper LLP, New York, New York, for Lead Plaintiff-Appellant Vaszurele Limited.
For defendant: Floyd Abrams (S. Penny Windle (admission pending), Adam Zurofsky, Tammy L. Roy, on the brief), Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellee The McGraw Hill Companies, Inc. James J. Coster (Joshua M. Rubins, Glenn C. Edwards, on the brief), Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke LLP, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellee Moody's Investors Service, Inc. Andrew J.Ehrlich (Martin Flumenbaum, on the brief), Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellee Fitch, Inc.
Case number: 10-0712-cv, 10-0898-cv, 10-1288-cv

Cite as: In Re Lehman Bros, 10-0712-cv, NYLJ 1202493939547, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided May 11, 2011)Before: Feinberg, Cabranes, and Raggi, C.JJ.p class="decid

April 11, 2007 |

Ring,* plaintiff-appellant v. AXA Financial, Inc., defendants-appellees

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