IN RE FITCH, INC.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Evan A. Davis, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York, N.Y. (Anil Kalhan, of counsel, on the brief) for Appellant-Cross-Appellee Fitch, Inc.

Adrienne B. Koch, Esanu Katsky Korins & Siger, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Paul Alston, Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing, Honolulu, HI, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant American Savings Bank, FSB.

(Floyd Abrams, Adam Zurofsky, and Brian Markley, Cahill Gordon & Reindel, New York, NY, submitted a brief for Amicus Curiae Standard & Poor's in support of Appellant Fitch, Inc.)

(Mark A. Fowler and James J. Coster, Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke LLP, New York, NY, submitted a brief for Amicus Curiae Moody's Investors Service, Inc., in support of Appellant Fitch, Inc.)

(Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, by Michelle Aronowitz and Andrea Oser, Albany NY, submitted a brief for Amicus Curiae State of New York in support of Appellee American Savings Bank, FSB.)

Before: WALKER, Chief Judge, OAKES and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.