HILLMAN v. WEBLEY

No. 96-1300.

115 F.3d 1461 (1997)

Elsie Hilliard HILLMAN; C.G. Grefenstette, trustees of the Henry Lea Hillman Trust U/A dated 11/18/85 (the "Henry L. Hillman Trust"), trustee for Juliet Lea Hillman, trustee for Audrey Hilliard Hillman Trust, trustee for Henry Lea Hillman, Jr. Trust, trustee for William Talbott Hillman Trust; Edward A. Craig, III, trustees U/A/T dated 8/28/68 for Juliet Lea Hillman (the "Juliet Lea Hillman Trust"), trustees U/A/T dated 8/28/68 for Audrey Hilliard Hillman (the "Audrey Hilliard Hillman Trust"), trustees U/A/T dated 8/28/68 for Henry Lea Hillman, Jr. (the "Henry Lea Hillman, Jr. Trust"), trustees U/A/T dated 8/28/68 for William Talbott Hillman (the "William Talbott Hillman Trust"); Axton Candy & Tobacco Company, Inc.; James M. Caplinger; Robert C. Carson Trust; Thomas W. Chisholm; Donald W. Fisher; Linda N. Fisher; Charles L. Hughes; JSM Ventures, Inc., on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated; Alfred A. Keran; Med James, Inc.; Joseph Migliozzi; Avis Miller; Lois H. Mitchell, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated; Ernest L. Prien; Asher Z. Rabinowitz; T.S.M. Investment Corporation Profit Sharing Plan; WDM Grand Partners; Paul A. Wischmeyer; AC, a California limited partnership; Alexis Tellis; Louise Migliozzi, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Wilmington Securities, Inc.; Henry L. Hillman; Henry Lea Hillman Trust U/A dated 11/18/85; Juliet Lea Hillman Trust; Audrey Hillman Trust; Henry Lea Hillman, Jr. Trust; William Talbott Hillman Trust, Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellees, v. Roy A. WEBLEY, Barbara S. Barnard, Defendants, Larry H. Welch, Maurie R. Caldwell, Jr., Defendants-Counter-Claimants, and Coopers & Lybrand, Defendant-Appellee, Glen W. BARNARD, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellant, v. Barry SHALOV, Charles Frank, Scottsdale Insurance Company, Cross-Claim-Defendants, and Hillman Company; Steven N. Hutchinson; H. Vaughan Blaxter, III; Carol Riley; Frank A. Savage; Carl Grefenstette, Counter-Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

June 16, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald Padmore, Theresa M. Moore, Jonathan C.S. Cox, and Vicki Marolt Buchanan, of Cox, Buchanan, Padmore & Shakarchy, Denver, Colorado, for appellant.

Tim Atkeson, of Arnold & Porter, Denver, Colorado, and Jay Kelly Wright, of Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, for appellee Coopers & Lybrand.

Before EBEL, KELLY, and BRISCOE, Circuit Judges.


BRISCOE, Circuit Judge.

Glen W. Barnard, a defendant in several securities cases consolidated in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado for pretrial purposes as multidistrict litigation under 28 U.S.C. § 1407, appeals the orders entered in one of those cases assuming jurisdiction over and subsequently dismissing his cross-claims against Coopers & Lybrand. We reverse and remand.

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