Seinfeld v. Bartz

322 F.3d 693 Greg SEINFELD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Carol BARTZ; John T. Chambers; Mary Cirillo; James F. Gibbons; Edward Kozel; James C. Morgan, Jaohn P. Morgridge; Donald Valentine; Steven M. West; Cisco Systems, Inc., Defendants-Appellees. No. 02-15498. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted December 5, 2002. Filed March 7, 2003. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED A. Arnold Gershon, New York, NY, for the plaintiff-appellant. Kevin P. Muck, Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California; Thelton E. Henderson, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV 01-2259 TEH. Before: BRUNETTI and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges, and EZRA, District Judge. * TASHIMA, Circuit Judge: 1 Plaintiff-Appellant Greg Seinfeld appeals an order of the district court dismissing his action for failure to state a claim pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). Seinfeld, a shareholder of Cisco Systems, Inc., filed a derivative action against Appellees, the company and its board of directors. In his complaint, Seinfeld alleged that Appellees violated § 14(a) of…