HIGHLAND CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP v. SCHNEIDER

Docket No. 08-4630-cv.

607 F.3d 322 (2010)

HIGHLAND CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP, Plaintiff-Appellee, RBC Dominion Securities Corp., Third-Party-Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee, v. Leonard SCHNEIDER, Leslie Schneider, Scott Schneider, Susan Schneider, Defendants-Third-Party-Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellants, Jenkins & Gilchrist Parker Chapin LLP, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 11, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul B. Lackey, Lackey & Hershman, LLP, Dallas, TX (Jamie R. Welton and Kristen A. Miller Reinsch, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Michael J. McNamara, Seward & Kissel LLP, New York, N.Y. (Jack Yoskowitz, on the brief), for Third-Party-Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee.

Edwin G. Schallert, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, N.Y. (Steven Klugman, Robert H. Chandler, and Courtney M. Dankworth of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and Alvin M. Stein and Katherine C. Ash of Troutman Sanders LLP, on the brief), for Defendants-Third-Party-Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellants.

Before LEVAL and RAGGI, Circuit Judges, and COTE, District Judge.


LEVAL, Circuit Judge:

Defendants Leonard Schneider ("Schneider") and his children, Leslie, Scott, and Susan Schneider (collectively, "Defendants" or "the Schneiders") appeal from the judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Leisure, J.), which held them liable for damages to Plaintiff Highland Capital Management LP ("Highland") and Counter-Claimant RBC Dominion Securities Corp. ("RBC") (jointly, "Appellees"), pursuant...

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