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CORROON v. REEVE

Docket No. 00-9301.

258 F.3d 86 (2001)

Christopher CORROON, Peter Corroon, and Faith V. Hyndman, on their own behalf and on behalf of all similarly situated shareholders of Willis Corroon Group, PLC, Plaintiffs, Polar International Brokerage Corp., on its own behalf and on the behalf of all similarly situated shareholders of Willis Corroon Group, PLC, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John REEVE, Thomas Colraine, Brian D. Johnson, George F. Nixon, Kenneth H. Pinkston, Michael R. Rendle, Joseph M. Rodgers, William A. Schreyer, Allen Sykes, Raymond G. Viault, Patrick Lucas, Willis Corroon Group PLC, Trinity Acquisition, PLC, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., L.P., Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance PLC, Guardian Royal Exchange, Royal & SunAlliance, Chubb Corporation, Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., Travelers Property Casualty Corp., Warburg Dillon Read, Inc., HSBC Investment Bank, Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., Defendants-Appellees, Berger & Montague, P.C., Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. August Term, 2000.

Decided: July 12, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

SAMUEL P. SPORN, (Joel P. Laitman, Schoeng old & Sporn, New York, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

LAWRENCE DEUTSCH, (Debora C. Fliegelman, Berger & Montague, Philadelphia, PA, on the brief), for Intervenor.

PAUL C. CURNIN, (Felecia B. Stern, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendants Reeve, Colraine, Johnson, Nixon, Pinkston, Rendle, Rodgers, Schreyer, Sykes, Viault, Lucas, Willis Corroon Group PLC., Trinity Acquisition, PLC, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., L.P., Warburg Dillon Read, Inc., HSBC Investment Bank, and Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.

ROBERT C. MYERS, (Paul B. Carberry, Dewey Ballantine, New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendants Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance PLC, Guardian Royal Exchange, Royal & SunAlliance, The Chubb Corporation, The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., and Travelers Property Casualty Corp.

Before: VAN GRAAFEILAND and KEARSE, Circuit Judges, SEYBERT, District Judge.

KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal, filed in the name of plaintiff Polar International Brokerage Corp. ("Polar"), from (a) an August 7, 2000 Memorandum Order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Shira A. Scheindlin, Judge, reported at 196 F.R.D. 13 ("August Order"), imposing sanctions on plaintiffs' attorneys pursuant to the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, 15 U.S.C. § 78u-4(c)(1) (2000) ("PSLRA...

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