Cohen v. Stratosphere Corporation

386 F.3d 950 Harvey COHEN; Dawn Ennis; Robert Buckler; Jeffrey Wexler; Union Equity Partner, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STRATOSPHERE CORPORATION; Yaeger Securities, Inc.; Grand Casino Resorts, Inc.; Lyle Berman; Bob Stupak; Bob Stupak Enterprises; Andrew S. Blumen, Defendants-Appellees. No. 95-16098. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted September 18, 1996. Filed October 25, 2004. 1 Bert M. Brown, Brown & Brown, Chtd, Las Vegas, Nevada; Sherrie R. Savett, Todd S. Collins, Berger & Montague, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the plaintiffs-appellants. 2 Mark G. Krum, Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro, LLP, Los Angeles, California, for the defendant-appellee. 3 Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada; David Warner Hagen, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-94-00334-DWH. 4 Before: CANBY, FERNANDEZ, and Raymond C. FISHER, * Circuit Judges. ORDER 5 Stratosphere Corporation was originally one of several defendants-appellees in appeal No. 95-16098. It entered bankruptcy while the appeal was pending, and all proceedings with regard to it were stayed in this court pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §…