BLAKE v. DIERDORFF

No. 87-5819.

856 F.2d 1365 (1988)

Aaron BLAKE; Ruth Blake; Aaron Blake, D.D.S., P.C. Employees Pension Trust; Aaron Blake, D.D.S., P.C. Retirement Trust, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Daniel W. DIERDORFF; Harry L. Summers; Tadashi Fujita; John McKenna Case; Allan Koljonen; Richard C. Raimann; Leff & Mason; Ernest Leff; John Grosvenor; Van D. Greenfield; Sun Savings and Loan Association; Arthur Young & Company; and Kenneth Clare, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 8, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Simon J. Freedman and William S. Lerach, Milberg Weiss Bershad Specthrie & Lerach, San Diego, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Scott L. Metzger, Duckor & Spradling, Alex C. McDonald, McDonald, Hecht & Solberg, David Pendarvis, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, San Diego, Cal., Eugene R. Erbstoesser, Arthur Young & Company, Associate General Counsel, New York City, Michael I. Goode, Newport Beach, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Daniel W. Dierdorff, La Jolla, Cal., in pro. per.

Before FERGUSON, BEEZER and LEAVY, Circuit Judges.


LEAVY, Circuit Judge:

The appellants, Aaron and Ruth Blake and their retirement and pension trusts (Blake), appeal the district court's dismissal of their multiple defendant civil RICO action and their claim under section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, 15 U.S.C. § 77q(a). Subsequent to our decision in In re Washington Public Power Supply System Securities Litigation, 823 F.2d 1349 (9th Cir.1987), which holds there...

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