TBG, INC. v. BENDIS

Nos. 93-3130 to 93-3132 and 93-3173.

36 F.3d 916 (1994)

TBG, INC., Plaintiff, v. Richard A. BENDIS, W. Terrance Schreier, Defendants, and John G. Pappajohn, Robert H. Mann, Jr., Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Defendants-Appellees. ERNST & WHINNEY, Defendant-Appellant, v. Richard S. MASINTON, Continental Healthcare Systems, Inc., TBG Information Systems, Inc., Third-Party Defendants-Appellees, and Paul R. Billington, George A. Bridgmon, Third-Party Defendants. TBG, INC., Plaintiff, v. Richard A. BENDIS, Ernst & Whinney, Defendants, and W. Terrance Schreier, Defendant-Appellant. John G. PAPPAJOHN, Robert H. Mann, Jr., Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Defendants-Appellees, v. Richard S. MASINTON, Continental Healthcare Systems, Inc., TBG Information Systems, Inc., Third-Party Defendants-Appellees, and Paul R. Billington, George A. Bridgmon, Third-Party Defendants. TBG, INC., Plaintiff, v. Richard A. BENDIS, Defendant-Appellant, and John G. Pappajohn, Robert H. Mann, Jr., Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Defendants-Appellees. W. Terrance SCHREIER, Ernst & Whinney, Defendants, v. Richard S. MASINTON, Continental Healthcare Systems, Inc., TBG Information Systems, Inc., Third-Party Defendants-Appellees, and Paul R. Billington, George A. Bridgmon, Third-Party Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

September 19, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael G. Norris (Bruce Keplinger, with him on the briefs), Payne & Jones, Chartered, Overland Park, KS, for appellant Bendis.

Melanie T. Morris, Ernst & Young, Washington, DC (Kathryn A. Oberly, Ernst & Young, Washington, DC, with her on the briefs, for appellant Ernst & Whinney; John R. Cleary, Husch & Eppenberger, Kansas City, MO, with her on the briefs, for appellant Schreier).

John H. Calvert, Lathrop & Norquist, Kansas City, MO (Daniel M. Dibble, with him on the briefs), for defendants-appellees Mann and Pappajohn.

Herbert E. Milstein (Lisa M. Mezzetti and Daniel S. Sommers, with him on the briefs), Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, Washington, DC, for appellee TBG.

John G. Koeltl, DeBevoise & Plimpton, New York City (Andrew C. Hartzell, Jr., Lorna G. Schofield and Daniel J. Goldstein, DeBevoise & Plimpton, New York City; John J. Jurcyk, Jr., McAnany, Van Cleave & Phillips, P.A., Kansas City, KS, with him on the briefs), for appellee Shook, Hardy & Bacon.

Before WHITE, Associate Justice (Ret.), ANDERSON and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges.


STEPHEN H. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.

The appellants, defendants who have not agreed to settle with TBG, Inc., challenge the district court's order approving TBG's settlements with three other defendants. We do not have jurisdiction to review the court's order approving TBG's settlement with Robert Mann and John Pappajohn, but we do review the order approving TBG's settlement with Shook, Hardy & Bacon ("Shook"). We vacate that order because the court impermissibly...

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