United States Fifth Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's securities fraud complaint is reversed where he satisfied the pleading standards of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act by alleging specific facts that gave rise to a strong inference that defendant issued a press release with scienter.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/22/2005
• Published 04/22/2005

Judges

• EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, SMITH and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen Cass Weiland, Robert Allen Hawkins, Patton Boggs, Dallas, TX, Robert Plotkin, Michael H. Curletti, The Robert Plotkin Law Firm, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark Tad Josephs, Christopher Andrew Thompson, Jackson Walker, Dallas, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.