TAFFLIN v. LEVITT

Nos. 88-3019L, 88-3020.

865 F.2d 595 (1989)

Francine TAFFLIN; Seymour Zuckerman; Eris Zuckerman; Renalee Selvin; Joan Zuckerman; Sylvia Zuckerman; Seymour Zuckerman, Executor of the Estate of Samuel Zuckerman; George R. Lyon; George C. Lyon; Peter M. Lyon; Bruce K. Lyon; Elizabeth A. Lyon; George R. Lyon; Mary G. Lathrop, Personal Representatives of the Estate of George M. Lyon; Kent H. Butcher; Stanley Z. Felsenberg, M.D., Personal Representative of the Estate of Minnie Felsenberg; Margaret Graves; Thurman L. Graves; Sandra L. Pletka; Gertrude Durso; Enterprise Equipment Co., Inc.; Carmen R. Goldings; Clelia S. Goldings; Ethan D. Goldings; Herbert J. Goldings, MD; Sarah M. Goldings; Doris Konig; Windell R. Carter; Catherine Carter; Mitchell W. Landy, Rio Grande Savings & Loan Assoc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Jeffrey A. LEVITT; LCP Corporation; Allan H. Pearlstein; Jerome S. Cardin; Light Street Partnership; Allen Feinberg; Robert D. Pearlstein; Samuel Shoubin; Dennis E. Guidice; Karol Levitt; Rosemary Pearlstein; Old Court Savings & Loan, Inc.; Maryland Savings Share Insurance Corp.; Maryland Deposit Insurance Fund Corporation; Charles C. Hogg, II; Paul B. Trice, Jr.; George W. H. Pierson; Jerome F. Dolivka; Francis F. Anderson; Michael J. Dietz; Leonard Bass; John C. Donohue, Sr.; Henry R. Elsnic; John D. Faulkner, Jr.; James D. Laudeman; Terry L. Neifeld; Glass and Associates, P.A.; Cardin and Cardin, P.A., Venable, Baetjer & Howard; David Unlfelder, Defendants-Appellees, LCP Corporation, Defendant. Francine TAFFLIN; Seymour Zuckerman; Eris Zuckerman; Renalee Selvin; Joan Zuckerman; Sylvia Zuckerman; Seymour Zuckerman, Executor of the Estate of Samuel Zuckerman; George R. Lyon; George C. Lyon; Peter M. Lyon; Bruce K. Lyon; Elizabeth A. Lyon; George R. Lyon; Mary G. Lathrop, Personal Representative of the Estate of George M. Lyon; Gertrude Durso; Enterprise Equipment Co., Inc.; Carmen R. Goldings; Clelia S. Goldings; Ethan D. Goldings; Herbert J. Goldings, MD; Sarah M. Goldings; Doris Konig; Windell R. Carter; Catherine Carter; Mitchell W. Landy; Rio Grande Savings & Loan Assoc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Jeffrey A. LEVITT; LCP Corporation; Allan H. Pearlstein; Jerome S. Cardin; Light Street Partnership; Allen Feinberg; Robert D. Pearlstein; Samuel Shoubin; Dennis E. Guidice; Karol Levitt; Rosemary Pearlstein; Old Court Savings & Loan, Inc.; Maryland Savings Share Insurance Corp.; Maryland Deposit Insurance Fund Corporation; Charles C. Hogg, II; Paul B. Trice, Jr.; George W. H. Pierson; Jerome F. Dolivka; Francis F. Anderson; Michael J. Dietz; Leonard Bass; John C. Donohue, Sr.; Henry R. Elsnic; John D. Faulkner, Jr.; David Uhlfelder; James D. Laudeman; Terry L. Neifeld; Glass and Associates, P.A.; Cardin and Cardin, P.A., Venable, Baetjer & Howard; Defendants-Appellees, LCP Corporation, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 12, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Norman Goldberger (Brian P. Flaherty, Gary L. Leshko, Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, Lawrence I. Weisman, on brief) for plaintiffs-appellants.

David B. Isbell (Charles F.C. Ruff, Carol Fortine, Covington & Burlington, on brief), Andrew H. Marks (Luther Zeigler, Elaine A. Panagakos, Crowell & Moring, Ralph S. Tyler, Asst. Atty. Gen., James P. Ulwick, Kramon & Graham, Paul D. Krause, Carol Ann Petren, Jayson L. Spiegel, Jordan, Coyne, Savits & Lopata, Aubrey M. Daniel, III, Williams & Connolly, Robert W. Hesselbacher, Jr., Laxalt, Washington, Perito & Dubuc, John H. Zink, III, Cook, Howard, Downes & Tracy, Ronald Shur, Anderson, Baker, Kill & Olick, Howard B. Possick, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, Jay I. Morstein, Frank, Bernstein, Conaway & Goldman, James A. Rothschild, Anderson, Coe & King, Daniel F. Goldstein, Brown & Goldstein, Andrew Radding, Blades & Rosenfeld, P.A., Francis S. Brocato, Brocato & Keelty, Stephen C. Winter, Winter & Associates, Ronald W. Fuchs, Eccleston & Seidler, Harold H. Burns; Thomas G. Bodie, Power & Mosner, on brief) for defendants-appellees.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, and WIDENER and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.


HARRISON L. WINTER, Chief Judge:

These consolidated cases arise out of the failure of Old Court Savings & Loan, Inc. (Old Court), a state chartered savings and loan association, and the collapse of the Maryland Savings-Share Insurance Corporation (MSSIC), a state-chartered non-profit corporation created to insure the accounts in Maryland savings and loan associations that did not have federal deposit insurance.

Plaintiffs, all non-residents of Maryland...

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