KOPPEL v. 4987 CORP.

Docket Nos. 98-7026, 98-7048.

167 F.3d 125 (1999)

Jay H. KOPPEL and Arnold E. Greenberg, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. 4987 CORPORATION; 498 Seventh Avenue Associates; Peter L. Malkin; Stanley Katzman; John L. Loehr; Martin D. Newman; Wien, Malkin & Bettex and Donald A. Bettex, Defendants-Appellees, Garment Capitol Associates, Nominal-Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided February 5, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Labaton, Goodkind Labaton Rudoff & Sucharow LLP, New York, N.Y. (Joseph Sternberg, Goodkind Labaton Rudoff & Sucharow LLP, New York; Alan E. Bandler, New York, NY; Gregory K. Arenson, Kaplan, Kilsheimer & Fox LLP, New York, NY; Mark W. Gaffney, Oyster Bay, NY; Philip Gordon, Gordon Law Offices Chartered, Boise, ID, of counsel), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Richard P. Swanson, Thelen Reid & Priest LLP, New York, N.Y. (Eli R. Mattioli and Susan L. Bedford, Thelen Reid & Priest LLP, New York, NY; William J. Schwartz and Stephen A. Wieder, Kronish, Lieb, Weiner & Hellman LLP, New York, NY, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees and Nominal-Defendant-Appellee.

(Harvey J. Goldschmid, David M. Becker, Jacob H. Stillman, Katharine Burdell Gresham, Nathan A. Forrester, and Paul Gonson, Washington, DC, submitted a brief for amicus curiae Securities and Exchange Commission).

Before: CALABRESI and STRAUB, Circuit Judges, and TSOUCALAS, Judge.


STRAUB, Circuit Judge:

The Plaintiffs-Appellants, Jay H. Koppel and Arnold E. Greenberg, appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Robert L. Carter, Judge) dismissing their complaints for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. Both complaints allege violations of § 14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act"), 15 U.S.C. § 78n(a), and several of the rules...

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