United States Tenth Circuit

In an appeal from an order granting costs to Defendants following summary judgment in a securities fraud action, the order is affirmed, where the taxed materials were "necessarily obtained for use in the case" under 28 U.S.C. section 1920(2) & (4).

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/03/2009
• Published 03/03/2009

Judges

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

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

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


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael J. Gibbens, Victor E. Morgan, and Gerald L. Jackson, Crowe & Dunlevy, Tulsa, OK, 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., Graydon Dean Luthey, Jr., and Sarah Jane Gillett, Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, P.C., Tulsa, OK, Timothy K. Roake, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P., Palo Alto, CA, and Ethan D. Dettmer, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P., San Francisco, CA, for Defendants-Appellees The Williams Companies, Inc. and Keith E. Bailey., Patrick M. Ryan, and Philip G. Whaley, Ryan, Whaley & Coldiron, Oklahoma City, OK, Peter A. Wald, Latham & Watkins LLP, San Francisco, CA, and Christopher Harris, Latham & Watkins LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Ernst & Young LLP.