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LANDER v. HARTFORD LIFE & ANNUITY INS. CO.

Docket No. 00-7849.

251 F.3d 101 (2001)

L. Claire LANDER, Charles M. Droz, Julian Block, and Zelda Block, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. HARTFORD LIFE & ANNUITY INSURANCE COMPANY and Hartford Life Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellees.

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

Decided: May 25, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael C. Spencer, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, L.L.P., New York, N.Y. (Melvyn I. Weiss, Janine L. Pollack and Lee A. Weiss of Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, L.L.P.; Ronald A. Uitz of Uitz & Associates; Sheldon S. Lustigman and Andrew B. Lustigman of The Lustigman Firm, P.C.; James R. Newcomer of James, Hoyer, Newcomer, Forizs & Smiljanich, P.A.; and Elias A. Alexiades of Hurwitz & Sagarin, L.L.C.; on the brief) for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Daniel McNeel Lane, Jr., Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P., San Antonio, TX (Barry A. Chasnoff and David R. Nelson of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P.; and Donald E. Frechette of Edwards & Angell, L.L.P.; on the brief) for Defendants-Appellees.

The Securities Exchange Commission, Washington, DC (David M. Becker, General Counsel; Jacob H. Stillman, Solicitor; Mark Pennington, Assistant General Counsel; Michael A. Conley, Attorney Fellow; and Meyer Eisenberg, Deputy General Counsel; on the brief) submitted a brief as amicus curiae.1

Before OAKES, STRAUB, and POOLER, Circuit Judges.

STRAUB, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs-Appellants L. Claire Lander, Charles M. Droz, Julian Block, and Zelda Block brought a class action alleging that the Defendants-Appellees Hartford Life & Annuity Insurance Company and Hartford Life Insurance Company (collectively referred to as "Hartford Life") violated Connecticut statutory and common law through fraudulent representations in the marketing of variable annuity contracts. After the case was removed to the United...

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