IN RE SUPREMA SPECIALTIES, INC. SECURITIES LIT.

Nos. 04-3716, 04-3755.

438 F.3d 256 (2006)

In re: SUPREMA SPECIALTIES, INC. SECURITIES LITIGATION Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana, Appellant Special Situations Fund, III, L.P.; Special Situations Cayman Fund, L.P., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

February 23, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel L. Berger (Argued), J. Erik Sandstedt, Bernstein, Litowitz, Berger & Grossman, LLP, New York, NY, for Appellant Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana.

Lawrence M. Rolnick (Argued), Lowenstein Sandler P.C., Roseland, NJ, Marc B. Kramer (Argued), Short Hills, NJ, for Appellants Special Situations Fund, III, L.P. and Special Situations Cayman Fund, L.P.

Phillip A. Geraci (Argued), Frederic W. Yerman, Kaye Scholer, New York, NY, Diane J. O'Neil, Mendes & Mount, Newark, NJ, Michael T. Conway, Lazare, Potter, Giacovas & Kranjac, New York, NY, for Appellees Mark Cocchiola and Marco Cocchiola.

Nancy E. Delaney (Argued), T. Barry Kingham, Dora Straus, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, LLP, New York, NY, for Appellee Steven Venechanos.

William J. Snipes (Argued), Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP, New York, NY, Charles J. Benjamin, Jr., McCarter & English, LLP, Newark, NJ, for Appellees Rudolph Acosta, Paul DeSocia, and Barry Rutcofsky.

Ira G. Greenberg (Argued), Edwards, Angell, Palmer & Dodge, New York, NY, for Appellee BDO Seidman, LLP.

Robert L. Hickok (Argued), Pepper Hamilton LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellees Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Janney Montgomery Scott, LLC, and Pacific Growth Equities, Inc.

Thomas B. Lewis, Stark & Stark, Princeton, NJ, for Appellee Oberweis.net.

Anthony P. La Rocco, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP, Newark, NJ, Keith A. Ketterling, Stoll Stoll Berne Lokting & Shlachter PC, Portland, OR, for Appellee Paulson Investment Company, Inc.

Robert A. Assuncao, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary U.S. LLP, Edison, NJ, for Appellee Westminster Securities Corp.

Nooshin Namazi (Argued), Kevin J. O'Malley, Nicoletti Hornig Campise & Sweeney, New York, NY, for Appellee Westport Resources Investment Services, Inc.

Before SLOVITER, BARRY, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.

Table of Contents

  I.A. The Rise and Fall of Suprema ....................................264
     B. The Secondary Offerings .........................................266
     C. Procedural History ..............................................267

 II. A. Section 11 and Section 12(a)(2) Claims ..........................269
     B. Section 10(b) Claims...

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