HEFLER v. << (2020)

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Gary HEFLER; et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v.

Thomas PEKOC, Objector-Appellant, v. Wells Fargo & Company; et al., Defendants-Appellees.

No. 19-15140

Decided: April 20, 2020

Before: BERZON and IKUTA, Circuit Judges, and LEMELLE,** District Judge.

Aelish Marie Baig, Shawn Anthony Williams, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, LLP, San Francisco, CA, Salvatore Graziano, Attorney, Rebecca E. Boon, Adam H. Wierzbowski, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Steve A. Miller, Attorney, Steve A. Miller, P.C., Denver, CO, John Jacob Pentz, III, Esquire, Attorney, Sudbury, MA, for Objector-Appellant Brendan Peter Cullen, Attorney, Sverker Kristoffer Hogberg, Attorney, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Palo Alto, CA, Richard H. Klapper, Attorney, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Wells Fargo & Company Grant Fondo, Goodwin Procter LLP, Redwood City, CA, Nicholas A. Reider, Goodwin Procter LLP, San Francisco, CA, Daniel Prugh Roeser, Esquire, Attorney, Richard Strassberg, Goodwin Procter LLP, New York, NY, Lloyd Winawer, Attorney, Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston, MA, for Defendant-Appellee John G. Stumpf Miles Ehrlich, Ismail Ramsey, Counsel, Ramsey & Ehrlich LLP, Berkeley, CA, for Defendant-Appellee John R. Shrewsberry Jeffrey Faucette, Skaggs Faucette LLP, San Francisco, CA, Brian P. Hagerty, Jennifer Gourley Wicht, Attorney, Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellee Carrie L. Tolstedt Cadio Zirpoli, Saveri & Saveri, Inc., San Francisco, CA, for Defendant-Appellee Oregon Public Employees Retirement System Nanci L. Clarence, Attorney, Josh Cohen, Attorney, Adam Shearer, Attorney, Clarence Dyer & Cohen LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Defendant-Appellee Timothy J. Sloan Walter F. Brown, Jr., Attorney, James N. Kramer, Senior Litigation Attorney, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Defendant-Appellee David M. Carroll Timothy Paul Crudo, Attorney, Rees F. Morgan, Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Defendant-Appellee David Julian Ed Swanson, Swanson & McNamara, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Defendant-Appellee Hope A. Hardison Ted W. Cassman, Esquire, Laurel Headley, Counsel, Arguedas, Cassman & Headley, LLP, Berkeley, CA, for Defendant-Appellee Michael J. Loughlin Carl Brandon Wisoff, Esquire, Attorney, Douglas Rea Young, Esquire, Attorney, Farella Braun & Martel LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Defendant-Appellee Avid Modjtabai Walter F. Brown, Jr., Attorney, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Defendant-Appellee James M. Strother Jordan Eth, Attorney, Anna Erickson White, Attorney, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Defendants-Appellees John D. Baker III, John S. Chen, Lloyd H. Dean, Elizabeth A. Duke, Susan E. Engel, Enrique Hernandez, Jr., Donald M. James, Cynthia H. Milligan, Federico F. Pena, James H. Quigley, Judith M. Runstad, Stephen W. Sanger, Susan G. Swenson, Suzanne M. Vautrinot