In re Enron Corp. Securities
| Decision Date | 08 September 2008 |
| Docket Number | No. MDL-1446.,Civ.A. No. H-01-3624.,MDL-1446. |
| Parties | In re ENRON CORPORATION SECURITIES, DERIVATIVE & "ERISA" LITIGATION. Mark Newby, et al., Plaintiffs v. Enron Corporation, et al., Defendants. |
| Court | U.S. District Court — Southern District of Texas |
Richard J. Zook, Cunningham Darlow et al., Roger B. Greenberg, Schwartz Junell et al., Lawrence David Finder, Haynes & Boone LLP, Jeffrey C. Kubin, Gibbs & Bruns LLP, Earnest W. Wotring, Connelly Baker et al., R. Paul Yetter, Yetter Warden et al. LLP, Charles R. Parker, Locke Liddell and Sapp, Thomas W. Sankey, Duane Morris, LLP, Thomas E. Bilek, The Bilek Law Firm LLP, Jack Edward McGehee, McGehee and Wachsman, Tom Alan Cunningham, Cunningham Darlow LLP, Ronald Joseph Kormanik, Attorney at Law, Gregory Sean Jez, Fleming & Asoc LLP, Robin L. Harrison, Campbell
Harrison et al., Kimberly L. McMullan, Yetter Warden Coleman LLP, Jeffrey R. Elkin, Porter Hedges, L.L.P., Houston, TX, George Paul Howes, Patrick J. Coughlin, Ray Mandlekar, Helen J. Hodges, Keith F. Park, James I. Jaconette, Couglin Stoia et al., Shawn M. Hays, William S. Lerach, Matthew P Siben, Lerach Coughlin et al., San Diego, CA, Regina M. Ames, Coughlin Stoia et al., Mary S. Thomas, Kathryn E. Sweeney, Quinn Emanuel et al., Los Angeles, CA, James D. Baskin, III, The Baskin Law Firm, Rose Ann Reeser, Texas Attorney General, Consumer Protection Division, Austin, TX, John P. Pierce, The Pierce Law Group, Bethesda, MD, Ira M. Press, Attorney at Law, Vincent R. Cappucci, Andrew J. Entwistle, Johnston de Forest Whitman, Jr., Stephen D. Oestreich, Entwistle & Cappucci, Richard A. Speirs, Jeffrey C. Zwerling, Zwerling Schachter et al., Daniel W. Krasner, Robert B. Weintraub, Wolf Haldenstein et al., David Alan Solomon, Jeffrey Lewis Glatzer, Anderson Kill et al., Sascha N. Rand, Christopher M. Evans, Kevin S. Reed, Stephen R. Neuwirth, Quinn Emanuel et al., New York, NY, Michael I. Behn, Futterman & Howard Chtd., Chicago, IL, Glen DeValerio, Wendy Hope Zoberman, Jeffrey C. Block, Berman DeValerio et al., Boston, MA, Michael Jameson Pucillo, Berman DeValerio Pease Tabacco Burt & Pucillo, West Palm Beach, FL, Neil L. Selinger, Stephen Lowey, Lowey Dannenberg et al., White Plains, NY, Joy A. Kruse, Melanie M. Piech, Richard M. Heimann, Elizabeth Cabraser, Lieff Cabraser et al., Paul F. Bennett, Gold Bennett et al., Loren Kieve, Kieve Law Offices, Inc., San Francisco, CA, Sherrie R. Savett, Arthur Stock, Berger & Montague PC, Deborah R. Gross, Law Offices Bernard M. Bross PC, Philadelphia, PA, William B. Federman, Federman Sherwood, Oklahoma City, OK, Martin D. Chitwood, Edward H. Nicholson, Jr., Chitwood Harley Harnes LLP, Atlanta, GA, Sidney S. Liebesman, Jay W. Eisenhofer, Grant & Eisenhofer PA, Wilmington, DE, Larry E. Klayman, Meredith Cavallo Di Liberto, Judicial Watch Inc., Washington, DC, Damon Michael Young, Young Pickett et al., Texarkana, TX, Andrew J. Mytelka, Tara Beth Annweiler, Steven Carl Windsor, Greer Herz & Adams, Galveston, TX, for Plaintiffs.
Robin D. Hosea, Seabrook, TX, pro se.
Kensington International Limited, pro se.
Rushmore Capital-1 LLC, pro se.
Rushmore Capital-II LLC, pro se.
Springfield Associates, pro se.
Arab Banking Corporation, pro se.
DK Acquisition Partners LP, pro se.
Dresdner Bank AG, New York and Grand Cayman Branches, pro se.
DZ Bank AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank, Frankfurt Main, pro se.
Standard Chartered Bank, pro se.
Whitewood Holdings LLC, pro se.
Ravenswood Capital-I LLC, pro se.
William Coy, pro se.
Mike Lange, Fairfield, CT, pro se.
Reinhardt Lange, pro se.
Westboro Properties LLC, pro se.
Stonehurst Capital Inc., pro se.
Candy Mounter, pro se.
OIP Limited, pro se.
Steven J. Toll, Cohen Milstein et al., Washington, DC, David R. Scott, Neil Rothstein, James E. Miller, Scott & Scott, Colchester, CT, Theodore C. Anderson, Kilgore & Kilgore PLLC, Dallas, TX, Arthur L. Shingler, III, Scott & Scott LLC, San Diego, CA, Emery Lawrence Vincent, Jr., Attorney at Law, Plano, TX, Hector G. Gancedo, Gancedo & Nieves LLP, Pasadena, CA, Allyson L. Mihalick, Herbert Blake Tartt, Jr., Beirne Maynard et al., Joseph Albert McDermott, III, Attorney at Law, John G. Emerson, Emerson Poynter LLP, Debra Brewer Hayes, Reich & Binstock, Paul Thomas Warner, The Warner Law Firm, Edward Morgan Carstarphen, III, Ellis Carstarphen et al., Gary Benjamin Pitts, Pitts and Mills, Bonnie E. Spencer, Spencer & Associates, Patrick Andrew Zummo, Law Offices of Patrick Zummo, Daniel James Petroski, Jr., Vahldiek, Cano & Petroski, Charles W. Kelly, Kelly Sutter et al., Brian P. Johnson, Johnson Spalding Doyle West and Trent, Houston, TX, Robert C. Finkel, Robert M. Kornreich, Wolf Popper LLP, Jonathan M. Plasse, Labaton Sucharow et al., Saul Roffe, Sirota & Sirota LLP, Aaron Brody, Stull Stull et al., Robert N. Kaplan, Kaplan Fox et al., Harvey Greenfield, Attorney at Law, Laura M Perrone, Law Firm of Harvey Greenfield, Mark A. Strauss, Roger W. Kirby, Kirby McInerney et al., Kenneth F. McCallion, McCallion & Associates, Stanley M. Grossman, Pomerantz Haudek et al., Paul Paradis, Abbey Gardy LLP, Charles G. Berry, Arnold Porter LLP, Brian Steven Traficante, Robert A Goodman, Arnold & Porter, New York, NY, David B. Kahn, Attorney at Law, Northfield, IL, Michael D. Donovan, Donovan Searles LLC, Curtis L. Bowman, Cauley Geller et al., Philadelphia, PA, Steven E. Cauley, Emerson Poynter LLP, J. Allen Carney, Cauley Bowman et al., Little Rock, AR, Fredrick F. Neid, Ass't Atty Gen., Lincoln, NE, Lynn Lincoln Sarko, Britt L. Tinglum, Derek W. Loeser, Erin M Riley, Keller Rohrback LLP, Steve W. Berman, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Seattle, WA, Baxter Ward Banowsky, Banowsky Levine PC, Dallas, TX, Jeffrey R. Krinsk, Attorney at Law, Spencer A. Burkholz, Coughlin Stoia et al., San Diego, CA, Corey D. Holzer, Holzer Holzer et al., Atlanta, GA, Keith Alan Ward, Shannon Gracey et al., Austin, TX, Reinhardt Lange, Fairfield, CT, John Lee Ringgenberg, Attorney at Law, Littleton, CO, Richard A. Lockridge, Lockridge Grindal et al., Minneapolis, MN, Aron K. Liang, Joseph W. Cotchett, Steven Noel Williams, Cotchett Pitre and Carthy, Burlingame, CA, Howard C. Goode, Attorney at Law, Philip T. Reinstein, Reinstein & Sherman, Northbrook, IL, John H. Boone, Attorney at Law, Palm Springs, CA, Joseph M. Alioto, Alioto Law Firm, Steven F. Helfand, Helfand Law Offices, San Francisco, CA, Andy Wade Tindel, Provost Umphrey LLP, Tyler, TX, Thomas Walter Umphrey, Provost & Umphrey, Beaumont, TX, Keith W. Schneider, Maguire & Schneider, Columbus, OH, J. Michael Hennigan, Hennigan Bennett et al., Los Angeles, CA Brant C. Martin, Puls Taylor et al., William Kelly Puls, Attorney at Law, Fort Worth, TX, Edward F. Haber, Shapiro Haber et al., Boston, MA, J. Michael Rediker, Dorothy R. Drake, Michael K.K. Choy, Page A. Poerschke, Haskell Slaughter et al., Birmingham, AL, Thomas T. Gallion, III, Constance C. Walker, Haskell Slaughter et al., Montgomery, AL, Andrew R. Tillman, Paine Tarwater Bickers & Tillman LLP, Knoxville, TN, Carol V. Gilden, Attorney at Law, Chicago, IL, for Consol Plaintiffs.
David Michael Gunn, Beck Redden Secrest LLP, Houston, TX, for Appellant.
Scott David Lassetter, The Lassetter Law Firm, John B. Strasburger, Weil Gotshal and Manges, Robin C. Gibbs, Gibbs & Bruns, Ronald Gene Woods, Attorney at Law, George W "Billy" Shepherd, III, Cruse Scott et al., Barry G. Flynn, Attorney at Law, Barnet B. Skelton, Jr., Attorney at Law, Mark K. Glasser, Baker Botts, Charles G. King, III, King & Pennington LLP, Barry Abrams, Abrams Scott et al., Mark Daniel Manela, Mayer Brown et al., Joel M. Androphy, Berg & Androphy, David J Beck, Beck Redden and Secrest, Taylor M. Hicks, Jr. Hicks Thomas et al., Ronald Earl Cook, Cook & Roach LLP, Robert Hayden Burns, Liskow & Lewis, David Michael Bond, Boyar & Miller PC, Hugh R. Whiting, Jones Day, Justin McKenzie Waggoner, Smyser Kaplan et al., Kathy Dawn Patrick, Aundrea Kristine Frieden, Brian Turner Ross, Jennifer H. Greer, Gibbs & Bruns, Amy Catherine Dinn, Thomas Anthony Hagemann, Marla Thompson Poirot, Peter Scaff, Gardere Wynne et al., C. Robert Mace, Tekell Book et al., Odean L. Volker, Haynes and Boone LLP, Jacks C. Nickens, Nickens Keeton et al., Matthew Okin, Okin & Adams LLP, Claude L Stuart, III, Phelps Dunbar LLP, Jessica Lynne Wilson, Nickens Keeton et al., Glen M. Boudreaux, Jackson Walker LLP, Maryellen Shea, Boudreaux Leonard et al., Houston, TX Jeffrey Kilduff, Robert M. Stern, Shannon M. Barrett, O'Melveny & Myers, Reid M. Figel, David L. Schwarz, Kellogg Huber et al., Michael L. Spafford, McKee Nelson LLP, Philip T. Inglima, Crowell & Moring LLP, Barry J. Pollack, Kelley Drye et al., Mark J. Rochon, Miller & Cehvalier Chartered, Robert P. Trout, Trout Cacheris, PLLC, Washington, DC, Robert K. Spotswood, Attorney at Law, Kenneth D. Sansom, Spotswood LLC, Anne Sikes Hornsby, Warren B. Lightfoot, Lightfoot Franklin et al., Lightfoot Franklin White LLC, N. Lee Cooper, Maynard Cooper et al., Matthew Todd Lowther, Spencer M. Taylor, Balch & Bingham LLP, Birmingham, AL, Salvador M. Hernandez, Bowen Riley et al., Nashville, TN, William J. Melley, III, Attorney at Law, Michael Joseph Walsh, Moukawsher & Walsh, Hartford, CT, Jeffrey A. Barker, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, James J. Farrell, Miles N. Ruthberg, Alicia A. Pell, Camille N. Rybar, Charles W. Cox, III, Latham Watkins, Los Angeles, CA, Catherine E. Palmer, Christopher R. Harris, Ethan J. Brown, Seth L. Friedman, Latham & Watkins, Christopher C. Costello, Curtis Mallet et al., Daniel F. Kolb, Sharon Katz, Davis Polk et al., Eliot Lauer, Michael J. Moscato, Curtis Mallet-Prevost et al., Andrew B. Kratenstein, Darin P. McAtee, Julia A. North, Richard W. Clary, Cravath Swaine and Moore, Adam R. Brebner, Caroline M. Flintoft, David H. Braff, Jennifer Parkinson, Julian C. Swearengin, Marc DeLeeuw, Michael T....
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