IN RE SMARTALK TELESERVICES, INC. SECURITIES LITIGATION

No. 00-1315.

124 F.Supp.2d 527 (2000)

In re SMARTALK TELESERVICES, INC. SECURITIES LITIGATION, This Document Relates To: All Actions Particularly USDC S.D. Ohio Case No. C2-98-814

United States District Court, S.D. Ohio, Eastern Division.

November 1, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Greg May, Munsch Hardt Kopf Harr & Dinan, Dallas, TX, Evans L. Land, Ann E. Bennington, Sidney Williams, Hahn Loeser & Parks, Columbus, OH, Darryl Paul Rains, San Francisco, CA, for Smartalk Teleservices, Inc.

Richard Stuart Wayne, Strauss & Troy, Cincinnati, OH, Maribeth Deavers, Martin Pergram & Browning, Worthington, OH, for Richard A. Eckstein.

Marilyn Ruth Donoff, M R Domoff and Associates, Dayton, OH, Maribeth Deavers, Lionel Z. Glancy, Lionel Z. Glancy Law Offices, Los Angeles, CA, for Allison Mizraji.

Maribeth Deavers, Martin Pergram & Browning, Worthington, OH, William S. Lerach, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, San Diego, CA, Kevin P. Roddy, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, Los Angeles, CA, Stephen Richard Basser, Barrack Rodos & Bacine, San Diegao, CA, for Sidney Weinstein.

Maribeth Deavers, Martin Pergram & Browning, Worthington, OH, Kurt B. Olsen, Kurt Olsen Law Offices, Washington, DC, for Charles R. Ostroff.

Maribeth Deavers, Martin Pergram & Browning, Worthington, OH, Richard S. Schiffrin, Schiffrin Craig & Barroway, Bala Cynwyd, PA, for Gerald Tobin.

Maribeth Deavers, Martin Pergram & Browning, Worthington, OH, Jeffrey H. Squire, Kaufman Malchman Kirby & Squire, New York City, for Patricia Bartolomeo.

Maribeth Deavers, Martin Pergram & Browning, Worthington, OH, Stanley Grossman, Pomerantz Haudek Block & Crossman, New York City, for David Jaroslawicz.

Maribeth Deavers, Martin Pergram & Browning, Worthington, OH, Robert N. Kaplan, Kaplan Kilsheimer & Fox, New York City, for David Turf.

Maribeth Deavers, Martin Pergram & Browning, Worthington, OH, Joel Sanford Taylor, Anthony J. Celebrezze, Jr., Dinsmore & Shohl, Columbus, OH, Kenneth A. Sweder, Sweder & Ross, Boston, MA, for Victor Grillo, Jr., Lloyd Lapidus, DTR Associates, Inc.

Maribeth Deavers, Martin Pergram & Browning, Worthington, OH, Daniel R. Karon, Robert N. Kaplan, Kaplan Kilsheimer & Fox, New York City, for Lisa Ernst.

Boris Feldman, Bredhoff & Kaiser, Washington, DC, Keith Eggleton, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Roseati, Palo Alto, CA, Sidney Williams, Hahn Loeser & Parks, Columbus, OH, for Robert H. Lorsch.

Boris Feldman, Bredhoff & Kaiser, Washington, DC, Sidney Williams, Hahn Loeser & Parks, Columbus, OH, for Erich L. Spangenberg, Glen Andrew Folck, Richard Teich, David A. Hamberger.

Sidney Williams, Hahn Loeser & Parks, Columbus, OH, for Robert M. Smith, Fred F. Fielding, Ahmed O. Alfi, Wayne V. Wooddell.

Thomas Leslie Long, Baker & Hostetler, Columbus, OH, for Amre Younesss, Lisa Marino.

John Joseph Kulewicz, Vorys Sater Seymour & Pease, Columbus, OH, for Pricewaterhousecoopers LLP.

Joel Sanford Taylor, Dinsmore & Shohl, Columbus, OH, Kenneth A. Sweder, Sweder & Ross, Boston, MA, for Smartalk Partners.


OPINION AND ORDER # 2

SARGUS, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on the Individual Defendants' Motion to Dismiss the Consolidated and Amended Class Action Complaint and on Defendants SmarTalk Partners, LLC Amre Youness and Lisa Marino's Motion to Dismiss the same Complaint ("Class Complaint"). For the Reasons that follow, the Court DENIES the Motions.

I. Background.

Plaintiffs acquired stock in SmarTalk Teleservices...

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