Tafflin v. Levitt, Nos. 88-3019
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Fourth Circuit |
| Writing for the Court | Before WINTER, Chief Judge, and WIDENER and CHAPMAN; HARRISON L. WINTER |
| Citation | 865 F.2d 595 |
| Parties | Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 94,141, RICO Bus.Disp.Guide 7117 Francine TAFFLIN; Seymour Zuckerman; Eris Zuckerman; Renalee Selvin; Joan Zuckerman; Sylvia Zuckerman; Seymour Zuckerman, Executor of the Estate of Samuel Zuckerman; George R. Lyon; George C. Lyon; Peter M. Lyon; Bruce K. Lyon; Elizabeth A. Lyon; George R. Lyon; Mary G. Lathrop, Personal Representatives of the Estate of George M. Lyon; Kent H. Butcher; Stanley Z. Felsenberg, M.D., Personal Representative of the Estate of Minnie Felsenberg; Margaret Graves; Thurman L. Graves; Sandra L. Pletka; Gertrude Durso; Enterprise Equipment Co., Inc.; Carmen R. Goldings; Clelia S. Goldings; Ethan D. Goldings; Herbert J. Goldings, MD; Sarah M. Goldings; Doris Konig; Windell R. Carter; Catherine Carter; Mitchell W. Landy, Rio Grande Savings & Loan Assoc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Jeffrey A. LEVITT; LCP Corporation; Allan H. Pearlstein; Jerome S. Cardin; Light Street Partnership; Allen Feinberg; Robert D. Pearlstein; Samuel Shoubin; Dennis E. Guidice; Karol Levitt; Rosemary Pearlstein; Old Court Savings & Loan, Inc.; Maryland Savings Share Insurance Corp.; Maryland Deposit Insurance Fund Corporation; Charles C. Hogg, II; Paul B. Trice, Jr.; George W. H. Pierson; Jerome F. Dolivka; Francis F. Anderson; Michael J. Dietz; Leonard Bass; John C. Donohue, Sr.; Henry R. Elsnic; John D. Faulkner, Jr.; James D. Laudeman; Terry L. Neifeld; Glass and Associates, P.A.; Cardin and Cardin, P.A., Venable, Baetjer & Howard; David Unlfelder, Defendants-Appellees, LCP Corporation, Defendant. Francine TAFFLIN; Seymour Zuckerman; Eris Zuckerman; Renalee Selvin; Joan Zuckerman; Sylvia Zuckerman; Seymour Zuckerman, Executor of the Estate of Samuel Zuckerman; George R. Lyon; George C. Lyon; Peter M. Lyon; Bruce K. Lyon; Elizabeth A. Lyon; George R. Lyon; Mary G. Lathrop, Personal Representative of the Estate of George M. Lyon; Gertrude Durso; Enterprise Equipment Co., Inc.; Carmen R. Goldings; Clelia S. Goldings; Ethan D. Goldings; Herbert J. Golding |
| Decision Date | 12 January 1989 |
| Docket Number | 88-3020,Nos. 88-3019 |
Page 595
Renalee Selvin; Joan Zuckerman; Sylvia Zuckerman; Seymour
Zuckerman, Executor of the Estate of Samuel Zuckerman;
George R. Lyon; George C. Lyon; Peter M. Lyon; Bruce K.
Lyon; Elizabeth A. Lyon; George R. Lyon; Mary G. Lathrop,
Personal Representatives of the Estate of George M. Lyon;
Kent H. Butcher; Stanley Z. Felsenberg, M.D., Personal
Representative of the Estate of Minnie Felsenberg; Margaret
Graves; Thurman L. Graves; Sandra L. Pletka; Gertrude
Durso; Enterprise Equipment Co., Inc.; Carmen R. Goldings;
Clelia S. Goldings; Ethan D. Goldings; Herbert J.
Goldings, MD; Sarah M. Goldings; Doris Konig; Windell R.
Carter; Catherine Carter; Mitchell W. Landy, Rio Grande
Savings & Loan Assoc., Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Jeffrey A. LEVITT; LCP Corporation; Allan H. Pearlstein;
Jerome S. Cardin; Light Street Partnership; Allen
Feinberg; Robert D. Pearlstein; Samuel Shoubin; Dennis E.
Guidice; Karol Levitt; Rosemary Pearlstein; Old Court
Savings & Loan, Inc.; Maryland Savings Share Insurance
Corp.; Maryland Deposit Insurance Fund Corporation;
Charles C. Hogg, II; Paul B. Trice, Jr.; George W. H.
Pierson; Jerome F. Dolivka; Francis F. Anderson; Michael
J. Dietz; Leonard Bass; John C. Donohue, Sr.; Henry R.
Elsnic; John D. Faulkner, Jr.; James D. Laudeman; Terry
L. Neifeld; Glass and Associates, P.A.; Cardin and Cardin,
P.A., Venable, Baetjer & Howard; David Unlfelder,
Defendants-Appellees,
LCP Corporation, Defendant.
Francine TAFFLIN; Seymour Zuckerman; Eris Zuckerman;
Renalee Selvin; Joan Zuckerman; Sylvia Zuckerman; Seymour
Zuckerman, Executor of the Estate of Samuel Zuckerman;
George R. Lyon; George C. Lyon; Peter M. Lyon; Bruce K.
Lyon; Elizabeth A. Lyon; George R. Lyon; Mary G. Lathrop,
Personal Representative of the Estate of George M. Lyon;
Gertrude Durso; Enterprise Equipment Co., Inc.; Carmen R.
Goldings; Clelia S. Goldings; Ethan D. Goldings; Herbert
J. Goldings, MD; Sarah M. Goldings; Doris Konig; Windell
R. Carter; Catherine Carter; Mitchell W. Landy; Rio
Grande Savings & Loan Assoc., Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Jeffrey A. LEVITT; LCP Corporation; Allan H. Pearlstein;
Jerome S. Cardin; Light Street Partnership; Allen
Feinberg; Robert D. Pearlstein; Samuel Shoubin; Dennis E.
Guidice; Karol Levitt; Rosemary Pearlstein; Old Court
Savings & Loan, Inc.; Maryland Savings Share Insurance
Corp.; Maryland Deposit Insurance Fund Corporation;
Charles C. Hogg, II; Paul B. Trice, Jr.; George W. H.
Pierson; Jerome F. Dolivka; Francis F. Anderson; Michael
J. Dietz; Leonard Bass; John C. Donohue, Sr.; Henry R.
Elsnic; John D. Faulkner, Jr.; David Uhlfelder; James D.
Laudeman; Terry L. Neifeld; Glass and Associates, P.A.;
Cardin and Cardin, P.A., Venable, Baetjer & Howard;
Defendants-Appellees,
LCP Corporation, Defendant.
Fourth Circuit.
Decided Jan. 12, 1989.
Page 597
M. Norman Goldberger (Brian P. Flaherty, Gary L. Leshko, Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, Lawrence I. Weisman, on brief) for plaintiffs-appellants.
David B. Isbell (Charles F.C. Ruff, Carol Fortine, Covington & Burlington, on brief), Andrew H. Marks (Luther Zeigler, Elaine A. Panagakos, Crowell & Moring, Ralph S. Tyler, Asst. Atty. Gen., James P. Ulwick, Kramon & Graham, Paul D. Krause, Carol Ann Petren, Jayson L. Spiegel, Jordan, Coyne, Savits & Lopata, Aubrey M. Daniel, III, Williams & Connolly, Robert W. Hesselbacher, Jr., Laxalt, Washington, Perito & Dubuc, John H. Zink, III, Cook, Howard, Downes & Tracy, Ronald Shur, Anderson, Baker, Kill & Olick, Howard B. Possick, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, Jay I. Morstein, Frank, Bernstein, Conaway & Goldman, James A. Rothschild, Anderson, Coe & King, Daniel F. Goldstein, Brown & Goldstein, Andrew Radding, Blades & Rosenfeld, P.A., Francis S. Brocato, Brocato & Keelty, Stephen C. Winter, Winter & Associates, Ronald W. Fuchs, Eccleston & Seidler, Harold H. Burns; Thomas G. Bodie, Power & Mosner, on brief) for defendants-appellees.
Before WINTER, Chief Judge, and WIDENER and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.
HARRISON L. WINTER, Chief Judge:
These consolidated cases arise out of the failure of Old Court Savings & Loan, Inc. (Old Court), a state chartered savings and loan association, and the collapse of the Maryland Savings-Share Insurance Corporation (MSSIC), a state-chartered non-profit corporation created to insure the accounts in Maryland savings and loan associations that did not have federal deposit insurance.
Plaintiffs, all non-residents of Maryland, are purchasers and holders of certificates of deposit of Old Court which, together with the interest thereon, are unpaid. Defendants are (a) the former officers and directors of Old Court, (b) the former officers and directors of MSSIC, (c) the law firm of Venable, Baetjer & Howard, counsel to MSSIC and Old Court, (d) Old Court's accounting firm, and (e) State of Maryland Deposit Insurance Fund Corporation (MDIF), the state-created...
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