United States Seventh Circuit

In a state-law putative class action, an order remanding plaintiff's suit to state court is vacated where the claims are connected sufficiently to the purchase and sale of a covered security and fall within the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act's preemptive scope.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/30/2005
• Decided 08/17/2005
• Published 08/17/2005

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, RIPPLE and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert L. King (argued), Korein Tillery, St. Louis, MO, for Plaintiff-Appeellee.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard Rosen, Walter Rieman (argued), Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, Scott C. Hecht, Stinson, Morrison & Hecker, Kansas City, MO, for Defendant-Appellant.