{"id":69,"date":"2007-03-28T17:49:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T17:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stockbrokerfraudblog.com\/2007\/03\/enron_litigation_continues_wit"},"modified":"2007-03-28T17:49:22","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T17:49:22","slug":"enron-litigation-continues-wit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/enron-litigation-continues-wit\/","title":{"rendered":"Enron Litigation Continues With Actions by Stockholders and Regulators of Accounts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAs class actions against investment firms face dismissal, attorneys for investors plan to go forward with claims for individual shareholders against those same firms.   After the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decided that cases in Houston against Merrill Lynch and other investment banking firms could not go forward as class actions, the door was left open for  victims of Enron stock fraud to file their own claims in court or arbitration against these investment firms.<\/p>\n<p>The class actions stopped the clock for filing individual claims against the defendants until appeals are completed.  Also, through the class actions substantial information was learned regarding the role of these investment firms in the Enron debacle.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, that same Court of Appeals affirmed a district court&#8217;s order allowing Texas accounting regulators to gain access to confidential discovery material in the Enron Corp. shareholder litigation (Newby v. Enron Corp., 5th Cir., No. 05-20462, 3\/16\/06).  The massive amounts of discovery material related to the Enron litigation led to a stipulation by parties that discovery be housed on a Web site. The district court overseeing the litigation issued a confidentiality order covering the deposition transcripts and other material, barring disclosure except to parties, their counsel, witnesses, a depository administrator, a court-appointed mediator, and a few others.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/enron-litigation-continues-wit\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Enron Litigation Continues With Actions by Stockholders and Regulators of Accounts.\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As class actions against investment firms face dismissal, attorneys for investors plan to go forward with claims for individual shareholders against those same firms. After the U. S. 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