WYLY v. WEISS

Docket No. 10-4785-cv.

697 F.3d 131 (2012)

Sam WYLY, and other Wyly Appellants, Wyly Appellants, Respondents-Appellants, Steven Sinsheimer, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Felix Glaubach, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Jerry Wehmhoefer, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Mishel S. Tehrani, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, John J. Greco, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Lillian Herschkowitz, Bruce Montague, Appellants, v. Melvyn I. WEISS, Milberg Weiss LLP, Lee A. Weiss, Barry A. Weprin, George A. Bauer, III, Jules Brody, Schiffrin Barroway Topaz & Kessler, LLP, Richard Schiffrin, Andrew Barroway, Stull, Stull & Brody, Andrew L. Barroway, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Movants-Appellees, Computer Associates International, Inc., Charles B. Wang, Sanjay Kumar, Russell M. Artzt, Ira H. Zar, Alfonse M. D'Amato, Jay W. Lorsch, Lewis S. Ranieri, Walter P. Schuetze, Seymore Pienkny, Special Litigation Committee of the Board of Directors of Computer Associates International, Inc., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: October 10, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Brewer ( Alexander D. Widell , on the brief), Bickel & Brewer, New York, NY, for Respondents-Appellants.

Gregory P. Joseph ( Douglas J. Pepe and Jeffrey H. Zaiger , on the brief), Gregory P. Joseph Law Offices LLC, New York, NY; ( Philip R. Forlenza and Benjamin S. Litman , on the brief), Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, New York, NY; ( Eric R. Levine , on the brief), Eiseman Levine Lehrhaupt & Kakoyiannis, P.C., New York, NY; ( Robert J. Pariser , on the brief), Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP, New York, NY, for Movants-Appellees.

Before: KEARSE, CABRANES, and SACK, Circuit Judges.


JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:

In this action under the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651,2 and the Anti-Injunction Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2283,3 we consider whether, following the approval of a federal class action settlement, the District Court properly enjoined a state court action for legal malpractice directed at counsel for the plaintiff class for advocating the settlement. We hold that the ...

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