POLICE AND FIRE RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF CITY OF DETROIT v. LA QUINTA HOLDINGS INC LLC LLC (2018)

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

POLICE AND FIRE RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF the CITY OF DETROIT Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LA QUINTA HOLDINGS, INC., Wayne B. Goldberg, Keith A. Cline, James H. Forson, Glenn Alba, Alan J. Bowers, Henry G. Cisneros, Giovanni Cutaia, Brian Kim, Michael Nash, Mitesh B. Shah, Gary M. Sumers, The Blackstone Group L.P., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC. Defendants-Appellees.

17-2941-cv

Decided: August 20, 2018

PRESENT: José A. Cabranes, Gerard E. Lynch, Circuit Judges, Edward R. Korman, District Judge.*

FOR PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT: Andrew M. McNeela (Ira M. Press, Peter S. Linden, on the brief), Kirby McIerney LLP, New York, NY. FOR DEFENDANTS-APPELLEES: Jonathan K. Youngwood (Janet A. Gochman, on the brief), Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett LLP, New York, NY. FOR DEFENDANT-APPELLEE WAYNE GOLDBERG: Sarah B. Rogers (William A. Brewer III, on the brief), Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors, New York, NY.

SUMMARY ORDER

Plaintiff-Appellant Police and Fire Retirement System of the City of Detroit appeals the judgment of the District Court dismissing their Second Amended Complaint with prejudice for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. We assume the parties’ familiarity with the underlying facts, the procedural history of the case, and the issues on appeal. After reviewing the whole record, we affirm the District Court’s judgment for substantially the same reasons as those given by the District Court in its Memorandum & Order, Police & Fire Ret. Sys. of the City of Detroit v. La Quinta Holdings Inc., No. 16-CV-3068 (AJN), 2017 WL 4082482 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 24, 2017), ECF No. 3.

CONCLUSION

We have reviewed all of the arguments raised by Plaintiff-Appellant on appeal and find them to be without merit. The August 28, 2017 judgment of the District Court is AFFIRMED.

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