United States Tenth Circuit

District court did not abuse its discretion in certifying a mandatory defendant class, or in approving a class settlement whereby each beneficiary of an earlier stock spinoff was required to pay the debtor's Trustee some amount for their shares, which were alleged to have been fraudulently transferred.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/14/2004
• Published 01/14/2004

Judges

• STEPHEN H. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Judge, and ANDERSON and BRISCOE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey J. Greenbaum,Sills, Cummis, Radin, Tischman, Epstein & Gross, P.A., Newark, NJ (Steven D. Gorelick, Sills, Cummis, Radin, Tischman, Epstein & Gross, Newark, NJ;  Chesley K. Culp III and Dianne M. Kueck, Moye, Giles, O'Keefe, Vermeire & Gorrell LLP, Denver, CO, with him on the briefs) for Defendants-Appellants., John C. Smiley (Harold G. Morris, Jr., and Patrick D. Frye with him on the brief), Lindquist & Vennum, P.L.L.P., Denver, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellee.