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IN RE WORLDCOM, INC. SECURITIES LITIGATION

Nos. 02 Civ. 3288(DLC), 03 Civ. 4490.

308 F.Supp.2d 236 (2004)

In re WORLDCOM, INC. SECURITIES LITIGATION Jackie S. Bell, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Bernard J. Ebbers, et al. Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

February 20, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Spencer, L.F. Sams, Jr., Donna M. Barnes, Mitchell, McNutt & Sams, P.A., Tupelo, MS, Michael D. Greer, Greer & Pipkin, Tupelo, MS, Grant M. Fox, Fox & Fox, P.A., Tupelo, MS, for Plaintiffs.

David Wertheimer, Lyndon Tretter, Hogan & Hartson, New York City, for Defendant Bernard J. Ebbers.

Bernard J. Ebbers, R. David Kaufman, M. Patrick McDowell, Brunini Grantham Grower & Hewes PLLC, Jackson, MS, for Defendant, of counsel.

Paul Curnin, David Elbaum, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York City, for Director Defendants.

Martin London, Richard A. Rosen, Brad S. Karp, Eric S. Goldstein, Walter Rieman, Marc Falcone, Joyce S. Huang, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York City, Robert McCaw, Peter K. Vigeland, Wilmer Cutler & Pickering, New York City, for Defendants Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. f/k/a Salomon Smith Barney, Inc., Citigroup Inc., and Jack Grubman.

OPINION & ORDER

COTE, District Judge.

The defendants' motion to dismiss — made in the context of the securities litigation that has accompanied the collapse of WorldCom, Inc. ("WorldCom") — addresses whether ten lawsuits, filed in nine separate Mississippi counties and bringing identical securities fraud and negligence claims under state law against defendants associated with WorldCom, are preempted by the Securities Litigation Uniform...

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