United States Ninth Circuit

Trustees of living trust had standing to sue mutual funds on behalf of trust shareholders for making unauthorized short sales of securities under Sections 80a-13(a)(3) and 80a-13(a)(2) of the Investment Company Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/09/2000
• Decided 11/13/2000
• Published 11/13/2000

Judges

• DAVID R. THOMPSON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  THOMPSON, T. G. NELSON, and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joseph J. Tabacco, Jr.,Berman, DeValerio, Pease & Tabacco, P.C., San Francisco, California;  Jared B. Stamell, Stamell & Schager, LLP, New York, New York, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Isabel M. Traugott and Kevin P. Muck, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, LLP, San Francisco, California, for the defendants-appellees.