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PELLER v. SOUTHERN CO.

No. 89-8744.

911 F.2d 1532 (1990)

Kenneth E. PELLER, Custodian for Arthur David Peller, Plaintiff-Appellee, Kelly Antoinette Peller, under Ougma suing derivatively, in the right and for the benefit of the Southern Company and Georgia Power Company, Plaintiff, v. SOUTHERN COMPANY; Georgia Power Company; Edward L. Addison; Alan R. Barton; William J. Cabaniss, Jr.; Charles H. Chapman, Jr.; A.W. Dahlbery; Joseph M. Farley; John W. Langdale; Douglas L. McCrary; Earl L. McLean, Jr.; William S. Morris, III; William A. Parker, Jr.; H.G. Pattillo; Robert H. Radcliff, Jr.; Crawford Rainwater; William J. Rushton, III; Robert W. Scherer; Gloria M. Shatto, Dr.; Herbert Stockman; A.F. Dantzler; Frank P. Samford, Jr.; Alvin W. Vogtle, Jr.; V.J. Daniels, Jr.; W.G. Autrey; H.G. Baker, Jr.; Bennett A. Brown; W.A. Fickling, Jr.; L.S. Flowers; J.A. Gantt; L.G. Hardman, III; Warren Y. Jobe; Richard J. Kelly; George W. Edwards, Jr.; James H. Miller, Jr.; Robert Strickland; William B. Tuner; Carl Ware and T.R. Williams, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 14, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Dalton, Kevin C. Greene and Winifred D. Simpson, Troutman Sanders Lockerman & Ashmore, Atlanta, Ga., Robert G. Stachler, G. Jack Donson, Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, Cincinnati, Ohio, William O. Fifield, Howard J. Trienens, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Ill., Griffin B. Bell, Frank C. Jones, Martin Robert Thornton, King & Spalding, Atlanta, Ga., for defendants-appellants.

Michael Grant Kohn, Gene Mesh & Associates, Cincinnati, Ohio, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before JOHNSON and CLARK, Circuit Judges, and BROWN, Senior District Judge.

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

Defendants the Southern Company ("Southern"), the Georgia Power Company ("Georgia Power"), and thirty-seven of their present and former corporate directors (collectively, "the Companies"), appeal from the district court's denial of their motion for dismissal or, alternatively, for summary judgment in this derivative shareholder action brought by plaintiff Kenneth E. Peller ("Peller"), custodian for Arthur David Peller.1

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