United States Ninth Circuit

Dismissal of a complaint alleging violations of section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933 and sections 10(b) and 14(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is affirmed where the district court did not commit reversible error by dismissing plaintiffs' section 11 claims for failure to meet the pleading standards of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) or by dismissing their section 10(b) and 14(e) claims for failure to meet the pleading standards of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/22/2008
• Decided 01/13/2009
• Published 01/13/2009

Judges

• BYBEE, Circuit Judge:, Before:  BEEZER, ROTH, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James V. Weixel, Jr., San Francisco, CA;  George S. Trevor, Corte Madera, CA;  John F. Friedemann and Kyle M. Fisher, Friedemann Goldberg LLP, Santa Rosa, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bruce A. Ericson, Kevin M. Fong, and Andrew D. Lanphere, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees.