American Funds Securities Litigation

FILED

NOT FOR PUBLICATION JUL 20 2012

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

In re: AMERICAN FUNDS SECURITIES No. 11-55299

LITIGATION,

D.C. No. 2:06-cv-07815-GAF-

RNB

ARDEN GEIST; ROLF BASLER; ROLF

BASLER REVOCABLE TRUST,

MEMORANDUM *

Plaintiffs - Appellants,

v.

CAPITAL GROUP COMPANIES, INC;

CAPITAL RESEARCH AND

MANAGEMENT CO; AMERICAN

FUNDS DISTRIBUTORS, INC,

Defendants - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Gary A. Feess, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted July 12, 2012 Pasadena, California

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3. Before: GILMAN,** TALLMAN, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Plaintiffs-appellants, investors in the American Funds mutual funds, appeal

the dismissal with prejudice of their claims that defendants-appellees Capital

Group Companies, Inc., Capital Research and Management Company, and

American Funds Distributors, Inc. (together, “defendants”), committed…