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INDIANA ELEC. WORKERS' PENSION TRUST v. SHAW GROUP

No. 06-30908.

537 F.3d 527 (2008)

INDIANA ELECTRICAL WORKERS' PENSION TRUST FUND IBEW; Plumbers and Pipefitters Local Union No. 630 Pension-Annuity Trust Fund; Carpenters Pension Fund, of Baltimore, Maryland; Hawaii Laborers Pension Plan, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SHAW GROUP, INC.; Tim Barfield, Jr.; J.M. Bernhard, Jr.; Richard F. Gill; Robert Belk, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 29, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. George, Douglas Wilens (argued), Paul J. Geller, Coughlin, Stoia, Geller, Rudman & Robbins, LLP, Boca Raton, FL, Joel R. Waltzer, Waltzer & Associates, Harvey, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Clifford Thau, Hilary Lovett Preston, Steven Robert Paradise, Vinson & Elkins, New York City, Arthur Gregory Grimsal, Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, New Orleans, LA, Thomas S. Leatherbury, Vinson, & Elkins, Dallas, TX, Marie Roach Yeates (argued), Vinson & Elkins, Hounston, TX, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and STEWART and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

EDITH H. JONES, Chief Judge:

A putative class of purchasers of Shaw Group, Inc. ("Shaw") common stock sued Shaw and four of its corporate officers alleging that Shaw engaged in a scheme to misrepresent the true nature of the company's financial condition to the public and inflate its stock price. Shaw moved to dismiss for failure to satisfy the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act's ("PSLRA") heightened pleading requirements for securities fraud cases, but the...

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