United States Ninth Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiffs' claim, alleging security fraud, is reversed where the complaint states a sufficiently particularized claim for accounting fraud under the heightened pleading standards of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/12/2004
• Decided 02/02/2005
• Published 02/02/2005

Judges

• Before BETTY B. FLETCHER, HARRY PREGERSON, and MELVIN BRUNETTI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Eric A. Isaacson, San Diego, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants-appellees., Michael P. McCloskey, San Diego, CA, for the defendants-appellees-appellants.