Surveys "post-Tellab" developments by US Circuit

• Circuit Court decisions

• 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 7th Circuits have affirmed
  district court dismissals
• District of Columbia Circuit and 5th Circuit
  have remanded cases

• District Court decisions
• Post-Tellabs brief filings

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• Also indexes litigations by plaintiff and defendant
  law firms (see below on this page)

Tellabs v Makor Issues  2007

• Supreme Court rules on strong inference of scienter

• Tellabs

8th Circuit

• In re Hutchinson Technology

• Plaintiffs brief filed 9.27.07
• Defendants brief filed 10.29.07

• Possis Medical

• Briefs filed in July and August 2007

• Western Pennsylvania v Ceridian Corp

• Plaintiffs brief filed 9.10.07
• Defendants brief filed 10.31.07

11th Circuit

• Gottfried v CP Ships Ltd

• Plaintiffs brief filed 10.09.07

• Thompson v. Relationserve Media

• Plaintiffs brief filed 8.23.07
• Defendants brief filed 9.25.07

• Plaintiffs brief filed 10.09.07

Circuit Court decisions

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District Court decisions

• Biogen Idec  USDC Massachusetts

• Motion to dismiss granted 9.14.07
• Motion for clarification filed

• Brooks Automation  USDC Massachusetts

• Motion to dismiss denied - granted in part 11.06.07

• Investors Financial Services  USDC Massachusetts

• Motion to dismiss granted 9.28.07
• Plaintiffs file an amended complaint 10.30.07

• Presstek  USDC New Hampshire

• Motion to dismiss denied 9.18.07

• Sonus Networks  USDC Massachusetts

• Defendants motion for reconsideration is denied 9.25.07

Brief Bank  Select litigations

• American Tower  USDC Massachusetts

• Defendants cite Baxter, Amkor Technology and Quest Software in supplemental filings  
• Plaintiff moves to amend complaint 11.13.07  

• Tyco  USDC Connecticut

• Director defendants move for reconsideration on 8.16.07

More at Scienter: First Circuit

Circuit Court

• ATSI Communications v Sharr Fund  7.11.07

• Second Circuit affirms dismissal of 10b-5 claims

District Court decisions

• BP (Commodities) USDC SD New York

• Motion to dismiss granted 6.28.07
• Motion for reconsideration denied 9.07.07
• Court applied Tellabs by analogy

• Escala Group  USDC SD New York

• Motion to dismiss denied 10.02.07

• Jarden  USDC SD New York

• Motion to dismiss denied, pre-Tellabs
• Motion for reconsideration denied, post-Tellabs

• Marsh & McClennan  USDC SD New York

• Motion to dismiss granted 11.14.07

• Openwave Systems  USDC SD New York

• Motion granted for some defendants;
  Denied as to others 10.31.07
• Cited by plaintiffs in Connetics and Jabil Circuit
• Plaintiffs file motion for reconsideration 11.14.07

• R&G Financial  USDC SD New York

• Motion to dismiss denied 9.10.07
• Auditor motion to dismiss denied 10.19.07

• Tommy Hilfiger  USDC SD New York

• Motion to dismiss denied 7.20.07

• Scottish Re Group  USDC SD New York

• Motion granted in part, denied in part 11.02.07

• Xethanol  USDC SD New York

• Motion to dismiss denied 9.07.07

Brief Bank  Select litigations

• ADVO  USDC Connecticut

• Reply brief filed 11.13.07

• AstraZeneca  USDC SDNY

• Post-Tellabs filings in July
• Avon Products  USDC SDNY

• Motion to dismiss pending
• Several post-Tellabs motions filed

• Elan  USDC EDNY

• Reply brief filed 9.07.07

• Fairfax Financial  USDC SDNY

• Reply briefs filed 10.31.07

• IAC/Interactive  USDC SDNY

• Reply brief filed 11.09.07

• Legg Mason  USDC SDNY

• Reply briefs filed 10.10.07

• Pfizer  USDC SDNY

• Motion to dismiss pending
• Post-Tellabs filings made by both sides July 2007

• PXRE  USDC SDNY

• Reply brief filed 11.16.07

• Sears Holdings  USDC SDNY

• Reply brief filed 11.09.07

• Symbol Technologies  USDC SDNY

• Post-Tellabs filings in July and August 2007

• Take-Two Interactive  USDC SDNY

• Opposition brief filed 9.04.07

• Top Tankers  USDC SDNY

• Reply brief filed 11.14.07

• Tower Automotive  USDC SDNY

• Post-Tellabs motion for judgment on pleadings is pending
• Reply brief filed 10.05.07

More at Scienter: Second Circuit

Circuit Court

• Winer Family Trust v. Queen (Pennexx Foods) 9.24.07

• Third Circuit affirms dismissal of 10b-5 claims
• Joins the Fifth and Seventh Circuits in explicitly holding that the "group pleading doctrine" didn't survive the PSLRA

• Globis Capital v Stonepath Group  7.10.07

• Third Circuit affirms dismissal of 10b-5 claims

District Court decisions

• Astea  ED Pennsylvania

• Motion to dismiss granted 8.09.07

• ATI Technologies  ED Pennsylvania

• Motion to dismiss granted 8.08.07

• Herley Industries  USDC ED Pennsylvania

• Motion to dismiss denied 7.17.07

• Isolagen  USDC ED Pennsylvania

• Motion to dismiss denied 9.26.07
• Motion for reconsideration denied 10.31.07

Brief Bank  Select litigations

• GMH Communities  USDC ED Pennsylvania

• Reply briefs filed 8.06.07

• Par Pharmaceutical  USDC New Jersey

• Opposition briefs filed 9.04.07

• Sonex Research  USDC ED Pennsylvania

• Notices of supplemental authorities filed

More at Scienter: Third Circuit

Circuit Court decisions

• ____

District Court decisions

• aaiPharma  USDC ED North Carolina

• Ernst & Young's motion to dismiss granted 11.06.07

• BearingPoint  USDC ED Virginia 

• Motion to dismiss granted 9.12.07

• Jos. A. Bank Clothiers  USDC Maryland

• Motion to dismiss denied 9.10.07
• Defendants move for judgment on pleadings 11.19.07

• Inspire Pharma  USDC MD North Carolina

• Motion to dismiss granted 7.26.07

Brief Bank  Select litigations

• Martek Biosciences  USDC D Maryland

• Company moved for judgment on the pleadings 7.11.07

More at Scienter: Fourth Circuit

Circuit Court

• Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Fund Inc.
  v. TXU Corp. 

• Remanded district court's grant of motion to dismiss because plaintiffs "did not have the benefit of Tellabs in drafting their complaint."
• Fifth Circuit opinion 2007 WL 2721268  9.18.07

• Integrated Electrical Services  8.21.07

• Fifth Circuit affirms dismissal of 10b-5 claims

District Court decisions

• Cyberonics  USDC SD Texas

• Motion to dismiss granted 10.04.07

• Encysive Pharma  USDC SD Texas

• Motion to dismiss granted 9.18.07

• Helen of Troy  USDC WD Texas

• Motion to dismiss denied May 2007
• Motion for interlocutory appeal denied June 2007

Brief Bank  Select litigations

• HCC Insurance Holdings  USDC SD Texas

• Motion to dismiss filed 9.21.07

• Home Solutions  USDC ND Texas

• Reply briefs filed 8.24.07

• Mannatech  USDC ND Texas

• Motion to dismiss filed 8.27.07

• Natural Health Trends  USDC ND Texas

• Reply briefs filed 7.23.07

• Zale Corp  USDC ND Texas

• Post-Higginbotham filings in August 2007

More at Scienter: Fifth Circuit

Circuit Court decisions

• ____

District Court decisions

• Abercrombie & Fitch  USDC SD Ohio

• Motion to dismiss denied 8.09.07
• Motion for interlocutory appeal denied 8.23.07

• Omnicare  USDC ED Kentucky

• Motion to dismiss granted 10.12.07

• Proquest  USDC ED Michigan

• Motion to dismiss denied 11.06.07

Brief Bank  Select litigations

• America Service  USDC MD Tennessee

• Post-Tellabs supplemental filings in July 2007

• Collins & Aikman  USDC ED Michigan

• Reply briefs filed 10.29.07

• Diebold  USDC ND Ohio

• Reply brief filed 10.24.07

• General Motors  USDC ED Michigan

• Post-Tellabs supplemental filings in June 2007

• Tempur-Pedic  USDC ED Kentucky

• Defendants cite Omnicare in supplemental filing

More at Scienter: Sixth Circuit

US Supreme Court

• Makor Issues v Tellabs  2006

• Overturned by Supreme Court
• Tellabs

Circuit Court decisions

• Higginbotham v Baxter International  7.27.07

• Seventh Circuit affirms dismissal of 10b-5 claims

District Court decisions

• Conseco  USDC SD Indiana

• Motion to dismiss denied 9.12.07

• Northfield Laboratories  USDC ND Illinois

• Motion to dismiss granted 9.25.07
• Plaintiff motion for reconsideration denied 10.16.07

Brief Bank  Select litigations

• CIB Marine Bancshares  ED Wisconsin

• Motion for judgment on the pleadings is pending

• Merge Technologies  ED Wisconsin

• Opposition brief filed 11.14.07

More at Scienter: Seventh Circuit

Circuit Court

• Possis Medical  USDC Minnesota

• Appellate briefs filed by both sides

District Court decisions

• Buca  USDC Minnesota

• Motion to dismiss granted August 2007

• H&R Block  USDC WD Missouri

• Motion to dismiss granted October 2007

• NVE  USDC Minnesota

• Motion to dismiss granted July 2007

Brief Bank  Select litigations

• Terayon  ED Missouri

• Post-Tellabs briefs have been filed

More at Scienter: Eight Circuit

Circuit Court decisions

• _______

District Court decisions

• Amkor Technology  USDC Arizona

• Motion to dismiss granted 9.25.07
• Appealed to Ninth Circuit 10.23.07

• BP Prudhoe Bay  USDC WD Washington

• Motion to dismiss denied 10.26.07

• Connetics  USDC SDNY

• Notices of supplemental authorities filed

• CSK Auto  USDC Arizona

• Company motion to dismiss denied,
  COO motion to dismiss granted 9.27.07

• Ditech Communications  USDC ND California

• Motion to dismiss granted 10.11.07

• Hansen Natural  USDC CD California

• Motion to dismiss granted 10.16.07

• Impax Labs  USDC ND California

• Motion to dismiss denied 7.18.07
• Motion for reconsideration filed and briefed

• InfoSonics  USDC SD California

• Motion to dismiss FAC granted 8.07.07
• Plaintiff filed SAC on 9.10.07
• Motion to dismiss SAC filed 10.01.07

• Loudeye  USDC WD Washington

• Motion to dismiss granted 8.17.07

• Quest Software  USDC CD California

• Most of plaintiffs claims survive motion 10.22.07

• Silicon Image  USDC ND California

• Motion to dismiss granted 9.21.07

Brief Bank  Select litigations

• Connetics  USDC SD California

• Plaintiffs cite Isolagen in supplemental filing

• Defendants cite Cyberonics in supplemental filings

• Plaintiffs cite Openwave Systems and Scottish Re
  in supplemental filings

• Dura Pharamaceuticals  USDC SD California

• Motion to dismiss fourth amended complaint pending

• Dot Hill Systems  USDC SD CA

• Reply brief filed 8.20.07

• Marvell Technology  USDC ND California

• Motion to dismiss filed 10.18.07 

• OrthoClear Holdings  USDC ND California

• Opposition briefs filed 11.09.07 

• Secure Computing  USDC ND California

• Sur-reply filed 11.15.07

• Terayon  USDC ND California

• Post-Tellabs filings in June and August 2007

More at Scienter: Ninth Circuit

Circuit Court decisions

• ______

District Court decisions

• NPS Pharma  USDC Utah

• Motion to dismiss denied 7.03.07

Brief Bank  Select litigations

• ______

More at Scienter: Tenth Circuit

Circuit Court decisions

• _____

District Court decisions

• Coca-Cola Enterprises ND Georgia

• Motion to dismiss granted 10.03.07

• Faro Technologies  USDC MD Florida

• Company motion to dismiss denied,
  Auditor motion granted 9.18.07

• Home Depot  USDC ND Georgia

• Motion to dismiss granted 7.18.07

• PainCare Holdings  USDC MD Florida

• Magistrate recommends motion to dismiss be denied

Brief Bank  Select litigations

• Jabil Circuit  USDC MD Florida 

• Plaintiffs cite Openwave in supplemental filing

• Defendants cite Hansen Natural in supplemental filing
• Plaintiffs cite Brooks Automation in supplemental filing

• Whitney Information Network  USDC MD Florida

• Opposition brief filed 11.15.07 

• Witness Systems ND Georgia

• KPMG reply brief filed 10.30.07

More at Scienter: Eleventh Circuit

Circuit Court decisions

• Belizan v Hershon (Interbank Funding)  7.27.07

• Reverses district courts dismissal with prejudice of a 10(b) claim and remanding with instructions to properly apply the Tellabs test

District Court decisions

• ____

Brief Bank  Select litigations

• ____

More at Scienter: DC Circuit

Select plaintiff firms

• Berger & Montague

• Baxter International  7th Cir
• InfoSonics  USDC SD California

• Bernstein Liebhard

• Stonepath Group  3rd Cir

• Bernstein Litowitz

• R&G Financial  USDC SD New York

• Cohen Milstein

• Astea  ED Pennsylvania

• Coughlin Stoia (formerly Lerach Coughlin)

• Abercrombie & Fitch  SD Ohio
• ADVO  USDC Connecticut
• America Service   MD Tennessee
• CSK Auto  USDC Arizona
• GMH Communities  USDC ED Pennsylvania
• Jarden  USDC SD New York
• Jos. A. Bank Clothiers  USDC Maryland
• Merge Technologies  ED Wisconsin
• Omnicare  USDC ED Kentucky
• Par Pharmaceutical  USDC New Jersey

• Sears Holdings  USDC SD New York
• Zale Corp  USDC ND Texas

• Federman & Sherwood

• NVE  USDC Minnesota
• Secure Computing  USDC ND California

• Glancy Binkow

• Dot Hill Systems  USDC SD CA

• Gold Bennett Cera

• H&R Block  USDC WD Missouri

• Grant & Eisenhofer

• Sears Holdings  USDC SD New York

• Kahn Gauthier

• Loudeye  USDC WD Washington
• Terayon  USDC ED Missouri

• Kaplan Fox

• Proquest  USDC ED Michigan

• Kirby McInerney

• Dot Hill Systems  USDC SD CA
• Herley Industries  USDC ED Pennsylvania

• Klafter & Olsen

• InfoSonics  USDC SD California

• Labaton Sucharow

• Herley Industries  USDC ED Pennsylvania
• Take-Two Interactive  USDC SD New York
• Zale Corp  USDC ND Texas

• Motley Rice

• NPS Pharma  USDC Utah

• Milberg Weiss

• AIG Advisor Group  USDC ED New York
• Possis Medical  USDC Minnesota

• Pomerantz Haudek

• Natural Health Trends  USDC SD Texas
• Northfield Laboratories  USDC ND Illinois

• Rosen Law Firm

• Natural Health Trends  USDC SD Texas
• Northfield Laboratories  USDC ND Illinois

• Saxena White

• Terayon  USDC ED Missouri

• Schiffrin Barroway

• Home Depot  USDC ND Georgia
• Proquest  USDC ED Michigan
• Zale Corp  USDC ND Texas

• Schoengold Sporn

• Pfizer  USDC SD New York

• Scott + Scott

• Home Solutions  USDC ND Texas

• Shalov Stone

• Astea  ED Pennsylvania

• Stull Stull

• AIG Advisor Group  USDC ED New York

• Zwerling Schachter

• BP Prudhoe Bay  USDC WD Washington

Select defendant firms

• Akin Gump

• Natural Health Trends  USDC SD Texas

• Arnold & Porter

• ADVO  USDC Connecticut

• Blank Rome

• Herley Industries  USDC ED Pennsylvania

• Bryan Cave

• H&R Block  USDC WD Missouri

• Buchanan Ingersoll

• Stonepath Group  3rd Cir

• Cadwalader

• Pfizer  USDC SD New York

• Cahill Gordon

• ATSI Communications  2nd Cir
• AIG Advisor Group  USDC ED New York

• Clifford Chance

• Take-Two Interactive  USDC SD New York

• Cooley Godward

• Dot Hill Systems  USDC SD CA

• Covington Burling

• ATSI Communications  2nd Circuit

• Davis Wright

• Loudeye  USDC WD Washington

• Day Pitney

• ADVO  USDC Connecticut

• Debevoise

• PXRE  USDC SD New York

• Dorsey & Whitney

• NVE  USDC Minnesota
• Possis Medical  USDC Minnesota

• Dewey Ballantine

• Omnicare  USDC ED Kentucky

• Faegre & Benson

• Buca  USDC Minnesota

• Fullbright & Jaworski

• Home Solutions  USDC ND Texas

• Gibson Dunn

• CSK Auto  USDC Arizona
• Zale Corp  USDC ND Texas

• Greenberg Traurig

• Par Pharmaceutical  USDC New Jersey

• Heller Ehrman
• Secure Computing  USDC ND California

• Jenner & Block

• Northfield Laboratories  USDC ND Illinois

• Katten Muchin Rosenman

• Merge Technologies  ED Wisconsin

• King & Spalding

• America Service  MD Tennessee
• Home Depot  USDC ND Georgia

• Kirkland & Ellis

• Merge Technologies  ED Wisconsin

• Kirkpatrick & Lockhart

• ADVO  USDC Connecticut

• Latham & Watkins

• H&R Block  USDC WD Missouri
• InfoSonics  USDC SD California
• NPS Pharma  USDC Utah
• Proquest  USDC ED Michigan
• Terayon  USDC ED Missouri

• Morgan Lewis

• GMH Communities  USDC ED Pennsylvania
• Terayon  USDC ED Missouri

• Pepper Hamilton

• Astea  ED Pennsylvania

• Seward & Kissel

• PXRE  USDC SD New York

• Simpson Thacher

• PXRE  USDC SD New York

• Skadden Arps

• Baxter International  7th Cir

• Sullivan & Cromwell

• BP Prudhoe Bay  USDC WD Washington
• R&G Financial  USDC SD New York

• Vory Sater

• Abercrombie & Fitch  SD Ohio

• Wachtell Lipton

• Sears Holdings  USDC SD New York

• Willkie Farr

• Jarden  USDC SD New York

• Wilmer Hale

• ATSI Communications  2nd Cir
• Jos. A. Bank Clothiers  USDC Maryland

Tellabs v Makor Issues