District Court of Appeal of Florida

Dismissal, on statute of limitations grounds, of a shareholder's suit filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Securities Act of 1933 is affirmed over his claim that he was entitled to claim class action tolling of the statute of limitations on account of a 1999 class action filed in federal court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/06/2006
• Published 12/06/2006

Judges

• FARMER, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen R. Astley, Jack Reise, Paul J. Geller and David J. George, of Lerach, Coughlin, Stoia, Geller, Rudman & Robbins, LLP., Boca Raton, and S. Gene Cauley, Curtis L. Bowman, J. Allen Carney and Marcus N. Bozeman of Cauley, Bowman, Carney & Williams, PLLC., Little Rock, Arkansas, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sigrid S. McCawley, Stuart H. Singer of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP., Fort Lauderdale, and Francis P. Barron and Stephen S. Madsen of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP., New York, New York, for appellee Tyco International LTD.