DCD PROGRAMS, LTD. v. LEIGHTON

No. 94-55776.

90 F.3d 1442 (1996)

DCD PROGRAMS, LTD.; JKB Alpha Programs, Ltd.; Technimatics Five, Ltd.; Lord Hill Investors; Pack Programmers; Uxbridge Management; Integrated Commodity Systems, Ltd., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Michael W. LEIGHTON, Defendant, and Jacob Y. Terner, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 24, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rick M. Stein, Palm Springs, California, for plaintiffs-appellants.

James H. Lehr, Beverly Hills, California, for defendant-appellee.

Before: POOLE and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges; MARQUEZ, District Judge.


O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge.

May investors who purchased limited partnership interests in certain "tax shelters" recover as damages, in a federal securities fraud suit, back taxes and interest paid to the Internal Revenue Service?

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This complex and seemingly interminable securities fraud action was initially filed in 1985.1 The plaintiffs consist primarily of two groups of California limited partnerships. The partnerships...

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