United States Tenth Circuit

A fraud class action under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 1) pled facts with sufficient particularity to satisfy section 78u-4(b)(1) standards, 2) pled scienter under section 78u-4(b)(2) only as to certain defendants, and 3) pled control person liability under section 78t(a) as to two defendants.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/11/2003
• Published 08/11/2003

Judges

• EBEL, Circuit Judge., Before EBEL, Circuit Judge, McWILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judge, and ARMIJO, District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael G. Lange,Berman, DeValerio, Pease, Tabacco, Burt & Pucillo, Boston, MA (Michael T. Matraia, Berman, DeValerio, Pease, Tabacco, Burt & Pucillo, Boston, MA, Gary C. Davenport and Eric Beltzer, McGloin, Davenport, Severson & Snow, P.A., Denver, CO, and Curtis V. Trinko, Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinko, LLP, New York, NY, with him on the briefs) for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael A. Noone, The Beatty Law Firm, P.C., Denver, CO (Michael L. Beatty and John E. Matter with him on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee Kinder-Morgan, Inc., Susan Bernhardt, Netzorg, McKeever, Koclanes & Bernhardt, LLC, Denver, CO, for Defendants-Appellees Larry D. Hall and Clyde E. McKenzie., Gayle Boone, Bracewell & Patterson, LLP, Dallas, TX (J. Clifford Gunter III, Bracewell & Patterson, LLP, Houston, TX, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee Richard Kinder.