United States Ninth Circuit

In an action allege that the defendant-appellee investment banks violated Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by engaging in prohibited "short-swing" transactions in connection with the Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) of the fifty-four defendant corporations between 1999 and 2000, the dismissal of the complaint is affirmed in part where plaintiff failed to present an adequate demand letter to the issuing companies prior to filing her lawsuits. However, the order is reversed in part where Section 16(b)'s two-year statute of limitations began to run from the time that the defendant filed a Section 16(a) disclosure statement, and plaintiff alleged that such statements were never filed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/02/2010
• Published 12/02/2010

Judges

• Milan D. Smith

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey I. Tilden, David H. Kistenbroker