IN RE LAWRENCE

Docket Nos. 00-5069(LEAD), 00-5070(CON) and 01-7579(CON).

293 F.3d 615 (2002)

In re LAWRENCE, Debtor. Barbara C. Lawrence; Lawrence Group, Inc.; Lawrence United Corp. Insurance Agency of Southern California, Inc.; A.W. Lawrence and Company; Lawrence Agency Corp.; Lawrence United Corporation; Lawrence Health Care Administrative Services, Inc.; Global Insurance Company; and Senate Insurance Company, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Stephen P. Wink; Peter Barton; J. Anthony Boeckh; Robert Campbell; Dale W. Church; Tom Curran; Edward A. Dohring; Sharon Duker; Brian Enright; John Fedele; Walter M. Fiederowicz; Goldberg Charitable Trust; Alan P. Goldberg; Libby Goldberg; Robert J. Higgins; Dan Hogan; Hugh A. Johnson, Jr.; Ken Leichman; Michael Lindburg; Michael Lounsberry; Louise Lounsberry; Michael D. Marvin; Martin J. Mastroianni; Patricia Mastroianni; Daniel V. McNamee, III; George C. McNamee; Kathleen McNamee; Art Murphy; E. Dennis O'Connor; Maureen O'Connor; Seymour Pearlman; John Puig; Bob Schock; Charles L. Schwager; Beni Sternlicht; Edward Swyer; Thomas Vierengel; Timothy R. Welles; David Wood; Mechanical Technology, Inc.; First Albany Companies, Inc., John Does 1-50; Jane Does 1-50, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Final Supplemental Briefs Received April 4, 2002.

Decided May 22, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Bailey (Rebecca A. Slezak, on the brief), Ainsworth, Sullivan, Tracy, Knauf, Warner, and Ruslander, P.C., Albany, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

George F. Carpinello, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, Albany, NY (Brian F. Mumford, Harvey & Mumford, Albany, NY, on the brief; Toni C. Lichstein, Douglas W. Henkin, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: FEINBERG and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges, and GLEESON, District Judge.


KATZMANN, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs in these consolidated cases appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (David N. Hurd, Judge), granting the defendants' motion to dismiss the plaintiffs' insider trading claims as impermissible collateral attacks on a final order of the United States Bankruptcy Court in violation of res judicata. The plaintiffs also argue that even if the District Court properly...

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