United States Tenth Circuit

In a securities fraud action, the District Court's grant of summary judgment to Defendants is affirmed where Plaintiff's expert testimony to prove loss causation was inadmissible under Daubert.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/18/2009
• Published 02/18/2009

Judges

• McCONNELL, Circuit Judge., Before McCONNELL, ANDERSON, and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jonathan E. Bridges, Susman Godfrey LLP, Dallas, TX (William Christopher Carmody, John W. Turner, and Jeremy J. Brandon, Susman Godfrey LLP, Dallas, TX;  Joshua H. Vinik, Matthew A. Kupillas, and Kent A. Bronson, Milberg Weiss LLP, New York, NY;  and Behram V. Parekh, Yourman Alexander & Parekh LLP, Los Angeles, CA, with him on the briefs), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• James L. Kincaid, Crowe & Dunlevy, Tulsa, OK (Michael J. Gibbens, Victor E. Morgan, Susan E. Huntsman, Crowe & Dunlevy, Tulsa, OK and Mary H. Tolbert, Crowe & Dunlevy, Oklahoma City, OK, with him on the brief) for Defendants-Appellees Howard E. Janzen, Scott E. Schubert, Kenneth Kinnear II, Matthew W. Bross, Bob F. McCoy, Howard S. Kalika, John C. Bumgarner Jr., and Frank M. Semple., Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr., Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, CA (Julian W. Poon, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, CA;  Timothy K. Roake and Ethan D. Dettmer, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Palo Alto, CA;  and Graydon Dean Luthey, Jr. and Sarah Jane Gillett, Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, P.C., Tulsa, OK, with him on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees The Williams Companies, Inc. and Keith E. Bailey.