Opinion
Master File No. 02 Civ. 3288 (DLC).
October 27, 2005
FLETCHER RAY SATTERFIELD, LLP, R. Jay Short, Jr., Wilmington, North Carolina, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER FLOM LLP, Jay B. Kasner, Susan L. Saltzstein, Jason D. Russell, New York, New York, Attorneys for the Underwriter-Related Defendants.
STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER
IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED by and between counsel for Perry Johnston, plaintiff in the above action ("Plaintiff"), and counsel for ABN AMRO Bank, N.V., ABN AMRO, Inc., Banc of America Securities LLC, Banca Caboto S.p.A. (f/k/a Caboto Holding Sim S.p.A.), Blaylock Partners L.P., BNP Paribas, BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Credit Suisse First Boston LLC (f/k/a Credit Suisse First Boston Financial Corporation), Deutsche Bank AG London, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc., Fleet Securities, Inc., Goldman, Sachs Co., J.P. Morgan Chase Co., J.P. Morgan Securities, Inc. (f/k/a Chase Securities, Inc.), J.P. Morgan Securities, Ltd., Lehman Brothers, Inc., Tokyo-Mitsubishi International, plc (n/k/a Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Internationalplc), Mizuho Internationalplc, UBS Securities LLC, Utendahl Capital Partners, L.P. and WestLBAG (f/k/a Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale) (the "Underwriter-Related Defendants") that, pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 41, the claims against the Underwriter-Related Defendants in the above action are hereby dismissed with prejudice with cach side to bear their own costs.
SO ORDERED.