KANSAS PUBLIC EMP. RET. SYSTEM v. REIMER & KOGER

No. 95-3499.

77 F.3d 1063 (1996)

KANSAS PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. REIMER & KOGER ASSOCIATES, INC., a Kansas Corporation; Ronald Reimer, an individual; Kenneth H. Koger, an individual; Clifford W. Shinski, an individual; Brent Messick, an individual; Robert Crew, an individual; Sherman Dreiseszun, an individual; Leland Gerhart, an individual; I.I. Ozar, an individual; Raymond Gifford, an individual; Harry S. Jonas, an individual; Randall M. Nay, an individual; Frank Sebree, an individual; Tony Salazar, an individual; Philip Pistilli, an individual; Michael K. Russell, an individual; Gage & Tucker, a law partnership; Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., an accountancy firm; KPMG Peat Marwick, an accountancy firm; Robert Spence, an individual; Thomas S. Morgan, co-executor of the estate of Frank S. Morgan; Marilyn J, co-executor of the estate of Frank S. Morgan; Isabel A. Kiene, executrix of the estate of Ralph E. Kiene, Defendants-Appellees, Shook, Hardy & Bacon; C. Patrick McLarney, Substituted for Shook Hardy law firm; Blackwell Sanders Matheny Weary & Lombardi, L.C., Intervenor-defendant-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided February 27, 1996.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied April 18, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth Ross, Chicago, Illinois, argued (Robert F. Coleman, Eugene I. Pavalon and Geoffrey L. Gifford, Chicago, Illinois, on the brief), for appellant.

John Villa, Washington, DC, argued (Robert J. Campbell, Elizabeth D. Nay, James E. Kelley, Jr., Charles W. German, Brant M. Laue, Robert Thompson, Robert R. Barton, Kansas City, Missouri, on the brief), for Estate of Frank Morgan, et al. (Mary G. Clark and Eric A. Kuhl, Washington, DC and Gene Voights, Kansas City, Missouri, on the brief), for Shook, Hardy, and Bacon. (Donald W. Rose, New York City and William F. Lloyd, Jeffrey R. Tone and Nancy Temple, Chicago, Illinois, on the brief), for KPMG Peat Marwick LLP and Robert W.L. Spence. (Kathleen A. Hardee, John K. Sherk, III and Gregory F. Maher, Kansas City, Missouri, on the brief), for Reimer & Koger and Assoc., Inc., Kenneth Koger, Robert Crew, Brent Messick and Clifford Shinski. (R. Lawrence Ward and Russell S. Jones, Jr., Kansas City, Missouri, on the brief), for Blackwell Sanders Matheny Weary & Lombardi, L.C.

Before McMILLIAN, JOHN R. GIBSON, and BOWMAN, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied April 18, 1996.

JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

In this, the fourth interlocutory appeal in the Kansas Public Employees' Retirement System (KPERS) case, KPERS seeks review of the district court's1 order enjoining KPERS from prosecuting lawsuits in Kansas based on the same claims being litigated in this case. Because we conclude that the effect of the Kansas lawsuits is to subvert...

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