IN RE BLECH SECURITIES LITIGATION

No. 94 Civ. 7696 (RWS).

928 F.Supp. 1279 (1996)

In re BLECH SECURITIES LITIGATION.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

June 6, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, New York City (David J. Bershad, Richard H. Weiss, Brad N. Friedman, of counsel), Chair of Plaintiffs' Executive Committee, Kaplan, Kilsheimer & Fox, New York City (Robert N. Kaplan, Richard J. Kilsheimer, of counsel), Gilman and Pastor, Boston, MA (Kenneth G. Gilman, Peter Lagoria, of counsel), Bernstein Liebhard & Lifshitz, New York City (Sandy A. Liebhard, of counsel), Members of Plaintiffs' Executive Committee, for Plaintiffs.

Shereff, Friedman, Hoffman & Goodman, New York City (Andrew J. Levander, of counsel), for Defendant David Blech.

Smith Campbell & Paduano, New York City (David S. Smith, of counsel), for Defendant D. Blech & Co., Inc.

Robinson Silverman Pearce Aronsohn & Berman, New York City (Eric Rieder, of counsel), for Defendant Mark S. Germain.

De Feis O'Connell & Rose, New York City (Gregory J. O'Connell, of counsel), Schlam Stone & Dolan, New York City (Harvey M. Stone, of counsel), for Defendant Mordechai Jofen.

Robert N. Swetnick, New York City, for Defendant Nicholas Madonia.

Debevoise & Plimpton, New York City (Edwin G. Schallert, of counsel), for Defendants Chancellor Capital Mgt. and Parag Saxena.

Crummy, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, Newark, NJ (Jeffrey P. Flynn, of counsel), for Defendant Baird Patrick & Co.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City (Dennis J. Block, Irwin H. Warren, Paul R. Raskin, Suzanne J. Romajas, of counsel), for Defendant Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc.

Buchanan Ingersoll, Pittsburgh, PA (Stanley Yorsz, Peter S. Russ, of counsel), for Defendant Advanced Surgical, Inc.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City (Max Gitter, of counsel), for Defendant Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Andrews & Kurth, New York City (Arthur D. Feisenfeld, Lynne M. Fischman Uniman, Maura Fecher Carlin, of counsel), for Defendant GeneMedicine, Inc.

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, New York City (Lisa Klein Wager, of counsel), for Defendant Intelligent Surgical Lasers, Inc.

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, New York City (Douglas C. Conroy, Kevin C. Logue, of counsel), for Defendant Ecogen Inc.

Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges, New York City (Jonathan E. Polonsky, of counsel), for Defendant LXR Biotechnology, Inc.

Hollyer, Brady, Smith, Troxell, Barrett, Rockett, Hines & Mone, New York City (Bruce Topman, of counsel), for Defendant Microprobe Corp.

Schwartz, Kelm, Warren & Ramirez, Columbus, OH (Daniel R. Swetnam, of counsel), for Defendant Neoprobe Corporation.

Jeffrey J. Miller, Seattle, WA, Solomon, Zauderer, Ellenhorn, Frischer & Sharp, New York City (Bertrand C. Sellier, of counsel), for Defendant NeoRX Corporation.

Heller, Horowitz & Feit, New York City (Sigmund S. Wissner-Gross, of counsel), for Defendant Pharmos Corp.

Porter & Hedges, Houston, TX (Mark K. Glasser, of counsel), for Defendant Texas Biotechnology Corp.


OPINION

SWEET, District Judge.

In these consolidated class actions brought for securities fraud, conspiracy, and common law fraud, each of the defendants has moved separately to dismiss the complaint against it on two grounds: first, for failure to plead fraud with particularity, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b); second, for failure to state a claim on which relief can be granted, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6...

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