DeJULIUS v. NEW ENGLAND HEALTH CARE EMP. PENSION

No. 04-3091.

429 F.3d 935 (2005)

Franklin Lee DeJULIUS and Susan M. DeJulius, Movants-Appellants, v. NEW ENGLAND HEALTH CARE EMPLOYEES PENSION FUND, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, Amalgamated Bank, as Trustee for the Longview Collective Investment Fund, Employer-Teamster Local Nos. 175 & 505 Pension Trust Fund, Pace Industry Union-Management Pension Fund, Plumbers & Pipefitters National Pension Fund, and United Brotherhood of Carpenters Pension Fund, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Sprint Corporation, William T. Esrey, Ronald T. Lemay, Kevin E. Brauer, Arthur B. Krause, Andrew J. Sukawaty, John E. Berndt, Theodore H. Schell, Thomas E. Weigman, Don A. Jensen, Bruce Branyan, William E. McDonald, Martin J. Kaplan, Gene M. Betts, James Richard Devlin, Michael B. Fuller, Len J. Lauer, John P. Meyer, Arthur Allan Kurtze, I. Benjamin Watson, III, Linda Koch Lorimer, Dubose Ausley, Warren L. Batts, Michael Bon, Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr., Harold S. Hook, Charles E. Rice, Louis W. Smith, Ron Sommer, and Stewart Turley, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

October 28, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth E. Nelson, Nelson Law Firm, P.C., Kansas City, MO, for Movants-Appellants.

Joseph D. Daley, (William S. Lerach, Keith F. Park, and Randall J. Baron; David R. Scott, Scott & Scott, LLC, Colchester, CT, with him on the brief) Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP, San Diego, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Eric J. Gorman, (Christina M. Tchen and Russell S. Jones, Jr., Shughart Thompson & Kilroy P.C., Kansas City, MO; J. Emmett Logan, Stinson Morrison & Hecker LLP, Kansas City, MO, with him on the brief) Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before EBEL, HOLLOWAY and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.


EBEL, Circuit Judge.

This case deals with the legal and constitutional sufficiency of the class action notice program under Fed.R.Civ.P. 23 and the Due Process Clause. Appellants are unnamed class plaintiffs in an action against Appellee Sprint Corporation. The class action concerns alleged instances of securities fraud surrounding Sprint's failed merger attempt with WorldCom, Inc. Appellants received notice of a class settlement two weeks after the deadline for filing...

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