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MADDEN v. COWEN & CO.

No. 07-15900.

556 F.3d 786 (2009)

Charles T. MADDEN; Shashidhar Acharya, M.D.; Achauer Family Limited Partnership, a limited partnership; Angela Allevato, M.D.; Robert A. Baird, M.D.; Annette C. Bernhut-Caplin, D.O.; Thomas W. Broderick, M.D.; Nancy K. Brownell, M.D.; Dawn Lynn Bruner, M.D.; Robert Budman, M.D.; Robert William Buster, M.D.; Michael W. Cater, M.D.; Anna Lisa Chavez, M.D.; Janak R. Chopra, M.D.; Raman Chopra, M.D.; Gaston Cilliani, M.D.; Carmelita R. Co-Casquejo, M.D.; William J. Collins, M.D.; Leo H. Cummins, M.D.; Christina K. Elliott; Mark H. Ellis, M.D.; Stanley P. Galant, M.D.; Sherwin A. Gillman, M.D. and Bonnie S. Gillman, as Trustees for the Gillman Community Property Trust; Keith L. Gladstien, M.D.; Stuart M. Gordon; Kenneth E. Grubbs, D.O.; Norah Gutrecht, M.D.; Thomas A. Hryniewicki, M.D.; R. Judd Jessup; Stanley Kanow, M.D.; Leonard Frank Kellogg Jr., M.D.; Mark E. Krugman, M.D.; Lawrence N. Kugelman; Sandra Barry Lieberman, as successor in interest to Melvyn B. Lieberman, M.D., Trustee for the Melvyn B. Lieberman Trust; Alan Maderious, M.D.; Mark C. Marten; William C. McMaster, M.D.; Maria E. Miñon, M.D.; Judith Harrison-Monge, M.D., as Trustee for the Harrison-Monge 1996 Family Trust; Ronald W. Moreland; Stanley K. Nakamoto, M.D.; Christopher C. Ohman; Kusum Ohri, M.D.; Jack M. Osborn, M.D.; Richard T. Pitts, D.O.; Norman J. Rosen, M.D.; Eric Murrow Rowen, M.D.; Helen Rowen, as Trustee for the Rowen Family Trust Dated May 5, 1982; Mark Steven Rowen; Marshall Rowen, M.D., individually and as Trustee for the Rowen Family Trust Dated May 5, 1982; Scott Jeffrey Rowen, M.D.; Pravin V. Sharma, M.D.; Hal S. Shimazu, M.D.; Sierra Ventures V, L.P., a California limited partnership; Aisha Simjee, M.D.; James B. Tananbaum; Allan G. Weiss; Daniel L. Weissberg, M.D.; Linda F. Weissberg; Laurence D. Wellikson, M.D.; Angela F. Wintheiser; and Allan Wong, M.D., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. COWEN & COMPANY, a New York limited partnership; SG Cowen Securities Corporation, a New York corporation; Cowen & Company, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 11, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Borowsky and Christopher James Hayes, Borowsky & Hayes LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Linda Goldstein, New York, NY, for the defendants-appellees.

Before: PROCTER HUG, JR., JOHN T. NOONAN, and SANDRA S. IKUTA, Circuit Judges.

IKUTA, Circuit Judge:

Sixty-three shareholders brought a state-law action against an investment bank for misleading them in connection with the sale of their closely held corporation to a publicly traded acquiring corporation. The suit was removed to federal district court under the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998, Pub.L. No. 105-353, 112 Stat. 3227 ("SLUSA"), which allows for the removal and preclusion1 of "private...

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