Patricia Benak, on behalf of Alliance Premier Growth Fund v. Alliance Capital Management L.p.

*By order entered May 10, 2002, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
consolidated the proceedings at Nos. 01-cv-05734, 01-cv-06127, 02-cv-00672, 02-00994,
and 02-cv-1385 for all purposes. The caption when the appeal was initially docketed
included the captions for all the individual actions. By order dated May 25, 2005, the
District Court noted that all plaintiffs’ complaints had been dismissed in action No. 01-cv-
05734. As such, this opinion shall be captioned in No. 01-cv-05734 only.
**
The Honorable Louis H. Pollak, District Judge, United States District Court for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania, sitting by designation.
Precedential
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT
No. 05-1070
PATRICIA BENAK, on behalf of Alliance
Premier Growth Fund
v.
ALLIANCE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT L.P.; JOHN D. CARIFA; ALFRED
HARRISON; MARK D. GERSTEN; RUTH BLOCK; DAVID H. DIEVLER; JOHN H.
DOBKIN; WILLIAM H. FOUL, JR.; JAMES M. HESTER; CLIFFORD L. MICHEL;
DONALD J. ROBINSON
On Appeal from the United States District Court
for the District of New Jersey
(D.C. No. 01-cv-05734)
Honorable Jose L. Linares, District Judge*
Submitted Under Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a)
November 18, 2005
Before: BARRY and AMBRO, Circuit Judges, and POLLAK,** District Judge

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James Bonner, Esq.
Shalov, Stone & Bonner
485 Seventh Avenue
Suite 1000
New York, NY 10018
Counsel for Appellants Patrick J. Goggins, Laura H. Goggins,
and Fred B. Voigt
Mark A. Kirsch, Esq.
James F. Moyle, Esq.
Jason A. D’Angelo, Esq.
Clifford Chance US
31 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
-AND-
Herbert J. Stern, Esq.
Stern & Kilcullen
75 Livingston Avenue
Roseland, NJ 07068
Counsel for Appellees Alliance Cap. Mgmt., John D. Carifa,
Alfred Harrison, and Mark D. Gersten
G. Stewart Webb, Jr., Esq.
Venable
2 Hopkins Plaze
1800 Mercantile Bank & Trust Bldg.
Baltimore, MD 21201

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-AND-
John L. Hardiman, Esq.
Sullivan & Cromwell
125 Broad Street
New York, NY 10004
Counsel for Appellees Alliance Premier Growth Fund, Ruth Block,
David H. Dievler, John H. Dobkin, William H. Foulk, Jr., James
M. Hester, Clifford L. Michel, and Donald J. Robinson
ORDER AMENDING PUBLISHED OPINION
BARRY, Circuit Judge
IT IS NOW ORDERED that the published Opinion in the above case filed January
13, 2006, be amended as follows:
On page 2, directly under the name Mark A. Kirsch, Esq., in the caption, add
James F. Moyle, Esq.
Jason A. D’Angelo, Esq.
By the Court,
/s/ Maryanne Trump Barry
Dated: February 7, 2006
SLC/cc: Mark A. Kirsch, Esq.
Herbert J. Stern, Esq.
John L. Hardiman, Esq.
G. Stewart Webb, Jr., Esq.
James P. Bonner, Esq.
James F. Moyle, Esq.
Jason A. D’Angelo, Esq.

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