United Investors Life Insurance Company v. Waddell & Reed Inc.

360 F.3d 960 UNITED INVESTORS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WADDELL & REED INC.; Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.; Waddell & Reed Financial Services Inc.; W & R Insurance Agency Inc.; Thomas A.N. Miller; Cheryl Aldava; David Atkinson; Timothy Glenn; Eric Hoopingarner, Michael Ingaglio; Duane Johnson; Carolyn Joyce; Gloria Kimmel; William Knoke; Mark Larsen; Carolyn Leone; Albert Martinez; John Morreale; Joyce O'Donnell; Elizabeth Ruch; Kenneth Sheets; Bobby Yount, Defendants-Appellants. No. 02-56278. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted October 10, 2003. Filed February 23, 2004. Rex S. Heinke, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Los Angeles, CA, Robert F. Scoular, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Los Angeles, CA, and Joseph P. Busch, III, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, for the defendants-appellants. William J. Baxley, South Birmingham, AL, and Michael Himes, Perkins Coie, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Terry J. Hatter, Chief District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-01-09684-TJH. Before J. CLIFFORD WALLACE, PAMELA ANN…