IN RE SEMGROUP ENERGY PARTNERS, L.P.

No. 08-MD-1989-GKF-FHM.

729 F.Supp.2d 1276 (2010)

In re SEMGROUP ENERGY PARTNERS, L.P., Securities Litigation.

United States District Court, N.D. Oklahoma.

Opinion Granting Reconsideration in Part and Denying Reconsideration in Part July 30, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurence D. Paskowitz , Paskowitz & Associates, Roy L. Jacobs , Roy Jacobs & Associates, New York, NY, Stuart William Emmons , William Bernard Federman , Federman & Sherwood, Oklahoma City, OK, for Craig Carson.

Darren J. Check , Gregory M. Castaldo , Lauren Wagner Pederson , Michelle M. Newcomer , Naumon A. Amjed , Sean M. Handler , Sharan Nirmul , Steven D. Resnick , Stuart L. Berman , Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check, LLP, Radnor, PA, Douglas Anthony Terry , Nelson Roselius Terry O'Hara & Morton, Oklahoma City, OK, Erik D. Peterson , Ramzi Abadou , Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Harvest Fund Advisors LLC.

Darren J. Robbins , Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP, San Diego, CA, David A. Rosenfeld , Samuel H Rudman , Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP, Melville, NY, Gerald Joseph Lovoi , Tulsa, OK, Joseph H. Weiss , Mark D. Smilow , Moshe Balsam , Weiss & Lurie, New York, NY, for Michael Rubin.

Natalie Marie MacKiel , Robert Craig Finkel , Wolf Popper LLP, New York, NY, for Charles D. Maurer.

Catherine A. Torell , Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll PLLC, New York, NY, Daniel S. Sommers , Jason M. Leviton , Steven J. Toll , Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Washington, DC, for Dharam V. Jain.

B. Warren Pope , Michael R. Smith , King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, GA, Don G. Holladay , Gary S. Chilton , Heidi J. Long , Holladay & Chilton PLLC, Oklahoma City, OK, Michael W. Youtt , William Robert Burns , King & Spalding, Houston, TX, for SemGroup Energy Partners, L.P., SemGroup Energy Partners G.P., LLC, Kevin L. Foxx, Alex Stallings, and Lehman Brothers Inc.

Clark Otto Brewster , Mark Byron Jennings , Brewster & De Angelis PLLC, Tulsa, OK, Lisa S. Gallerano , Orrin Harrison, III, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Dallas, TX, for Gregory C. Wallace.

Alfred Robert Pietrzak , Daniel Allan McLaughlin , Owen H. Smith , Stacy L. Acord , Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY, Archer Scott McDaniel , McDaniel Longwell Acord & Kroll PLLC, Tulsa, OK, for Citigroup Global Markets Inc., and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Wells Fargo & Company, SMH Capital Inc., UBS Securities LLC, Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC, Wachovia Corporation, Raymond James & Associates, Inc., RBC Capital Markets Corporation, A.G., Edwards & Sons, Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co., and JP Morgan Securities.

Penny P. Reid , Weil Gotshal & Manges, New York, NY, for SemGroup Holdings, L.P.

Colin Hampton Tucker , John H. Tucker , Randall Edwin Long , Rhodes Hieronymus Jones Tucker & Gable, Tulsa, OK, Jesse Z. Weiss , Kimberly Geiler Davis , Michael J. Biles , Paul Richard Bessette , Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Austin, TX, for Thomas L. Kivisto.

Bruce W. Collins , Carolyn R. Raines , Emily Coleman McCall , Carrington Coleman Sloman & Blumenthal LLP, Dallas, TX, Edward John Main , James Keith Secrest, II , Secrest Hill & Butler, Tulsa, OK, for W. Anderson Bishop, and Brian F. Billings.

Ari M. Berman , Clifford Louis Thau , Ronald L. Oran , Vinson & Elkins, New York, NY, Michael Paul Kirschner , Kirschner, Kirschner Law Firm, Oklahoma City, OK, for E. Bartow Jones, Andrew Ward, Carlyle/Riverstone Global Energy and Power Fund II, L.P., C/R SemGroup Investment Partnership, L.P., and C/R Energy Coinvestment II, L.P.

James David Jorgenson , Laurence Lindsay Pinkerton , Pinkerton & Finn, Tulsa, OK, for A.R. Thane Ritchie, and Ritchie Opportunistic Trading, Ltd.

Frederic Dorwart , Nora Rose O'Neill , Frederic Dorwart Lawyers, Tulsa, OK, for Bosc, Inc.

Gabor Balassa , Joshua Z. Rabinovitz , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL, Mary Quinn-Cooper , Eldridge Cooper Steichen & Leach PLLC, Tulsa, OK, for Pricewaterhousecoopers, LLP.


OPINION AND ORDER

GREGORY K. FRIZZELL, District Judge.

This matter comes before the court on the following Rule 12(b)(6) motions to dismiss:

• Defendant Brent Cooper's Motion to Dismiss [Doc. No. 193]; • Defendant BOSC, Inc.'s Motion to Dismiss [Doc. No. 196]; • Defendants Brian F. Billings and W. Anderson Bishop's Motion to Dismiss [Doc. No. 197]; • Defendant Thomas Kivisto's Motion...

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