United States Second Circuit

Because plaintiffs' suit, for relief on behalf of all health benefit providers that paid for Rezulin, involves claims of damages that were caused directly by defendants' alleged fraud, dismissal for failure to state a claim under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) is reversed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/21/2003
• Published 04/21/2003

Judges

• CALABRESI, Circuit Judge., Before:  LEVAL, CALABRESI, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard W. Cohen, Lowey Dannenberg Bemporad & Selinger, P.C., White Plains, N.Y. (Stephen Lowey, Peter D. St. Phillip, Jr., Lowey Dannenberg Bemporad & Selinger, P.C., White Plains, NY;  Mark D. Fischer, Mark M. Sandmann, Rawlings & Assocs., Louisville, KY, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• David Klingsberg (Maris Veidemanis, Robert Grass, on the brief), Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.