U.S. v. BLEZNAK

Docket No. 97-6130

153 F.3d 16 (1998)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, Alex. Brown & Sons Inc., Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., CS First Boston Corp., Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp., Furman Selz Llc, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Hambrecht & Quist Llc, Herzog, Heine Geduld, Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Lehman Brothers Inc., Mayer & Schweitzer, Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc., Nash, Weiss & Co., Olde Discount Corp., Painewebber Inc., Piper Jaffray Inc., Prudential Securities Inc., Salomon Brothers Inc., Sherwood Securities Corp., Smith Barney Inc., Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, LP, and UBS Securities Llc, Defendants-Appellees, v. Donald BLEZNAK, Andrew Bleznak, Richard I. Burstein, Chevra Gemilath Chasodam, Carl S. Clark And Patricia Clark, Daniel D'addario, Roseann D'addario, Maxine Dampf, Jerome D. Derdel, Sulochana Desai, H. Leslie Fineberg, Nicholas Frangiosa, Neal Hansen And Donna Hansen, Timothy Hennessey, Brent Johnson, Charles Kaye, Jerry Krim, James Krum, Robert Lipinski, John Lorge, The State of Louisiana, Through Its Attorney General, Richard P. Ieyoub, William Lutz, Jr., Dennis Maloney, Kevin Maloney, Richard I. Perlman, Jeffrey Sachs, David Siegel, Two Guys Limited Partnership and their General Partner, Geltmore, Inc., Peter Wasserman, Dennis Weiner, and Sumner Woodrow, Intervenors-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 6, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard B. Simon, Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach, San Diego, California (Arthur M. Kaplan, Michael D. Basch, Richard A. Koffman, Melinda L. deLisle, Fine, Kaplan and Black, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Christopher Lovell, Lovell & Stewart, New York City; Robert A. Skirnick, Maria A. Skirnick, Meredith Cohen Greenfogel & Skirnick, New York City, of counsel), for Intervenor-Appellants.

Andrea Limmer, Department of Justice, Washington, DC (Joel I. Klein, Assistant Attorney General, John F. Greaney, Hays Gorey, Jr., John D. Worland, Jr., Catherine G. O'Sullivan, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Philip L. Graham, Jr., Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City (John L. Warden, Sullivan & Cromwell; Jay N. Fastow, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City; Howard Schiffman, Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky, Washington, DC; Lewis A. Noonberg, Piper & Marbury, Washington, DC; Robert M. Heller, Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel, New York City; Richard A. Cirillo, Rogers & Wells, New York City; Frank Holozubiec, Kirkland & Ellis, New York City; James J. Calder, Rosenman & Colin, New York City; Charles E. Koob, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York City, James T. Halverson, Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, DC; Jeffrey Q. Smith, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, New York City; Catherine A. Ludden, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, New York City; Robert F. Wise, Jr., Davis, Polk & Wardwell, New York City; Paul B. Uhlenhop, Lawrence Kamin Saunders & Uhlenhop, Chicago, Illinois; Norman J. Barry, Jr., Donahue Brown Mathewson & Smyth, Chicago, Illinois; Robert B. McCaw, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, DC; Matthew Farley, Shanley & Fisher, New York City; William P. Frank, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, New York City; Jeffrey I. Weinberger, Munger Tolles & Olson, Los Angeles, California; Brian J. McMahon, Crummy, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, Newark, New Jersey; Charles A. Gilman, Cahill Gordon & Reindel, New York City, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: WINTER, Chief Judge, LEVAL, Circuit Judge, and TRAGER, District Judge.


WINTER, Chief Judge:

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