Merrill Lynch v. Bell Boyd & Lloyd

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

GERALD K. SMITH, as Plan Trustee  for and on behalf of the Estates of Boston Chicken, Inc., BC Real Estate Investments, Inc., and all Boston Chicken affiliates, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ARTHUR ANDERSEN LLP, a limited liability partnership, Defendant, and MERRILL LYNCH & CO., Inc., a No. 03-16791 corporation; MERRILL LYNCH D.C. Nos. PIERCE FENNER & SMITH INC., a corporation; DEUTSCHE BANC  CV-01-00218-PGR

CV-01-00246-PGR

SECURITIES, INC., a corporation dba CV-02-01162-PGR Deutsche Banc Alex.Brown; CV-02-01248-PGR MORGAN STANLEY & CO., Inc., a corporation, Defendants-Appellants, BELL, BOYD & LLOYD, a limited liability corporation; PEDERSEN & HOUPT, a professional corporation, Defendants-Appellees. v.

MARK W. STEPHENS,

Third-party- plaintiff-Appellee. 

11715 11716 SMITH v. ARTHUR ANDERSEN LLP

GERALD K. SMITH, as Plan Trustee  for and on behalf of the Estates of Boston Chicken, Inc., BC Real Estate Investments, Inc., and all Boston Chicken affiliates, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ARTHUR ANDERSEN LLP, a limited…