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IN RE LORD ABBETT MUTUAL FUNDS FEE LITIGATION

No. 07-1112.

553 F.3d 248 (2009)

In re LORD ABBETT MUTUAL FUNDS FEE LITIGATION, Joseph C. White; Josephine Logan; Richard Curtis; Bo Bortner; James A. Pingitore; Philip B. Katz, Appellants. v. Lord Abbett & Co LLC; Lord Abbett Distributor LLC; Tracie E. Ahern; Joan A. Binstock; Daniel E. Carper; Robert S. Dow; Howard E. Hansen; Paul A. Hilstad; Lawrence H. Kaplan; Robert G. Morris; A. Edward Oberhaus, III; Edward K. Von Der Linde; Michael Brooks; Zane E. Brown; Patrick Browne; John J. Dichiaro; Sholom Dinsky; Leslie J. Dixon; Kevin P. Ferguson; Robert P. Fetch; Daria L. Foster; Daniel H. Frascarelli; Robert I. Gerber; Michael S. Goldstein; Michael A. Grant; Charles Hofer; W. Thomas Hudson; Cinda Hughes; Ellen G. Itskovits; Maren Lindstrom; Robert A. Lee; Gregory M. Macosko; Thomas Malone; Charles Massare, Jr.; Stephen J. McGruder; Paul McNamara; Robert J. Noelke; R. Mark Pennington; Walter Prahl; Michael Rose; Eli M. Salzmann; Douglas B. Sieg; Richard Sieling; Michael T. Smith; Richard Smola; Diane Tornejal; Christopher J. Towle; Marion Zapolin.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Opinion filed: January 20, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome M. Congress, Esquire (Argued), Milberg Weiss, LLP, Mark Levine Esquire, Stull Stull & Brody, New York, NY, Patrick L. Rocco, Esquire, Shalov, Stone & Bonner, Morristown, NJ, for Appellants.

Jeffrey B. Maletta, Esquire (Argued), Nicholas G. Terris, Esquire, Shanda N. Hastings, Esquire, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP, Washington, D.C., Christopher A. Barbarisi, Esquire, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP, Newark, NJ, for Appellees.

Before: SLOVITER, BARRY and ROTH, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

ROTH, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs appeal the December 4, 2006, order of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, dismissing their action with prejudice pursuant to the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998 (SLUSA), 15 U.S.C. § 78bb(f). This appeal presents the question whether SLUSA requires the dismissal of the entire action when the action includes some state law class action claims that clearly may not be maintained...

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