MEYER v. JINKOSOLAR HOLDINGS CO., LTD.

Docket No. 13-616-cv.

761 F.3d 245 (2014)

Vaughn Leroy MEYER, Richard Matkevich, Abdullah Al Mahmud, Azriel Shusterman, individually and on behalf of all others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants. Marco Peters, individually and on behalf of all Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiff, v. JINKOSOLAR HOLDINGS CO., LTD., Steven Markscheid, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Collins Stewart LLC, Defendants-Appellees, William Blair & Co., Xiande Li, Kangping Chen, Xianhua Li, Wing Keong Slew, Haitao Jin, Zibin Li, Loggen Zhang, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 31, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Stephen Bigin ( Uri Seth Ottensoser , Joseph R. Seidman, Jr. , Laurence Jesse Hasson , on the brief), Bernstein Liebhard LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Brian H. Polovoy ( Jerome S. Fortinsky , on the brief), Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees JinkoSolar Holdings Co., Ltd. and Steven Markscheid.

William J. Sushon ( Bradley J. Butwin , B. Andrew Bednark , on the brief), O'Melveny & Meyers LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., Roth Capital Partners, LLC, and Collins Stewart LLC.

Before: WINTER, WALKER, and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.


WINTER, Circuit Judge:

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