MUTUAL SAVINGS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, et al.
v.
JAMES RIVER CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc.
Supreme Court of Alabama.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
June 19, 1998.
June 19, 1998.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
J. Michael Rediker, Peyton D. Bibb, Jr., and Thomas L. Krebs of Ritchie & Rediker, L.C., Birmingham; and J. Timothy Kyle of Russell, Straub & Kyle, Decatur, for appellants.
Thomas E. Spahn and Thomas McGonigle of McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, L.L.P., Richmond, VA; Michael L. Edwards and Edward S. Allen of Balch & Bingham, Birmingham; and John S. Key of Eyster, Key, Tubb, Weaver & Roth, Decatur, for appellee James River Corp. of Virginia, on original submission.
N. Lee Cooper, Patrick C. Cooper, and Carranza Pryor of Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., Birmingham, for appellee Merrill Lynch & Company, Inc., on original submission.
Thomas E. Spahn and Thomas McGonigle of McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, L.L.P., Richmond, VA; Michael L. Edwards and Edward S. Allen of Balch & Bingham, Birmingham; John S. Key of Eyster, Key, Tubb, Weaver & Roth, Decatur; Patrick C. Cooper of Maynard Cooper, Frierson & Gayle, P.C., Birmingham, for appellees James River Corp. of Virginia and Merrill Lynch & Company, Inc., on application for rehearing.
William T. Stephens, general counsel, Retirement Systems of Alabama, for amicus curiae Retirement Systems of Alabama.
Supreme Court of Alabama.
On Application for Rehearing
HOOPER, Chief Justice.
The opinion of April 17, 1998, is withdrawn, and the following opinion is substituted therefor.
The plaintiffs in this class action invested in 30-year 10.75% debentures issued by James River Corporation of Virginia. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., was the dealer-manager for a tender offer made by James River to the bondholders. The tender offer is the subject of this dispute...
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