CARPENTERS' PENSION FUND OF ILLINOIS v. NEIDORFF

No. 20-3216.

30 F.4th 777 (2022)

CARPENTERS' PENSION FUND OF ILLINOIS; Iron Workers Pension Fund, Local 11; Peoria Police Pension Fund; Laura Wood; Harkishan Parekh, derivatively on behalf of Centene Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants v. Michael NEIDORFF; Jeffrey A. Schwaneke; Robert K. Ditmore; David Steward; John R. Roberts; Tommy G. Thompson; Frederick H. Eppinger; Richard Gephardt; Orlando Ayala; Vicki B. Escarra; K. Rone Baldwin; Carol E. Goldman; Centene Corporation, a Delaware corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: April 7, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol V. Gilden , Cohen & Milstein, Chicago, IL, Scott Richard Jacobsen , Scott & Scott, New York, NY, Geoffrey M. Johnson , Scott & Scott, Cleveland Heights, OH, Stephen J. Oddo , Robbins, LLP, San Diego, CA, Joseph Pettigrew , Scott & Scott, San Diego, CA, Jamie L. Reyes-Jones , Hartnett & Reyes-Jones, Saint Louis, MO, Brian J. Robbins , Robbins & Arroyo, San Diego, CA, Richard A. Speirs , COHEN & MILSTEIN, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants Carpenters' Pension Fund of Illinois and Iron Workers Pension Fund, Local 11.

Carol V. Gilden , Cohen & Milstein, Chicago, IL, Greg G. Gutzler , DiCello & Levitt, New York, NY, Scott Richard Jacobsen , Scott & Scott, New York, NY, Geoffrey M. Johnson , Scott & Scott, Cleveland Heights, OH, Stephen J. Oddo , Robbins, LLP, San Diego, CA, Joseph Pettigrew , Scott & Scott, San Diego, CA, Jamie L. Reyes-Jones , Hartnett & Reyes-Jones, Saint Louis, MO, Brian J. Robbins , Robbins & Arroyo, San Diego, CA, Richard A. Speirs , COHEN & MILSTEIN, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants Peoria Police Pension Fund and Laura Wood.

Carol V. Gilden , Cohen & Milstein, Chicago, IL, Scott Richard Jacobsen , Scott & Scott, New York, NY, Geoffrey M. Johnson , Scott & Scott, Cleveland Heights, OH, Joseph Vincent Neill , Joseph V. Nell , Attorney at Law, Saint Louis, MO, Stephen J. Oddo , Robbins, LLP, San Diego, CA, Joseph Pettigrew , Scott & Scott, San Diego, CA, Jamie L. Reyes-Jones , Hartnett & Reyes-Jones, Saint Louis, MO, Brian J. Robbins , Robbins & Arroyo, San Diego, CA, Richard A. Speirs , COHEN & MILSTEIN, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant Harkishan Parekh.

Joseph Palmer Conran , Christopher A. Smith , Husch & Blackwell, Saint Louis, MO, Shay Dvoretzky , Skadden & Arps, Washington, DC, Zachary M. Faigen , Winston P. Hsiao , Peter B. Morrison , Skadden & Arps, Los Angeles, CA, Jay B. Kasner , Scott D. Musoff , Skadden & Arps, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before SHEPHERD, WOLLMAN, and KOBES, Circuit Judges.


Following the merger of Centene Corporation (Centene) and Health Net, Inc. (Health Net), certain shareholders of Centene (collectively, Appellants) brought five claims on behalf of the corporation against certain of its former and then-current directors and officers and nominal defendant Centene (collectively, Appellees...

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