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FVC.COM, Inc.
Summary: According to the Company’s FORM 10-Q For The Quarterly Period Ended March 31, 2002, the court dismissed these actions without leave to amend on February 14, 2000 and the plaintiffs appealed the dismissal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The appeal was taken under submission by the court of Appeals following the filing of briefs by the parties and the presentation of oral argument on July 11, 2001. On March 15, 2002, the Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s judgment, dismissing the complaint without leave to amend. On March 28, 2002, plaintiffs filed a Petition for Rehearing in the Ninth Circuit. On April 5, 2002, the Ninth Circuit denied the plaintiffs' Petition for Rehearing.
As previously reported by the Company’s FORM 10-Q For The Quarterly Period Ended September 30, 1999, beginning in April 1999, several purported class action suits were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging violations of the federal securities laws against the Company and certain of its officers and directors in connection with the Company's reporting of its financial results for the period ending December 31, 1998. These actions have just been commenced and no trial dates have been set. In July 1999, the Court entered orders consolidating all existing class actions into a single action and appointing a lead plaintiff and lead plaintiff's co-counsel. A consolidated amended complaint was filed in September 1999 and the individual defendants filed a motion to dismiss the complaint on October 8, 1999. The motion is scheduled for hearing by the court on January 21, 2000.
The original complaint charges FVC and certain officers and directors with violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Specifically, the complaint alleges that in order to inflate the price of FVC stock, the Company and the Individual Defendants falsely reported the Company's financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 1998 through improper revenue recognition, thereby materially overstating FVC's revenue, income and earnings per share in the fourth quarter of 1998, in violation
of GAAP. Furthermore, FVC's insiders sold 535,000 shares of their FVC stock for proceeds exceeding $7.3 million.
The complaint further alleges that on or around April 6, 1999, FVC disclosed that it was reducing its previously announced revenues for the fourth quarter of 1998 by approximately $7.0 to $7.5 million to defer revenue on inventory of the Company's products held by Nortel on December 31, 1998. Thus, sales for the fourth quarter of 1998 would only be approximately $4.7 to $5.2 million (as opposed to the $12.3
million in revenues previously reported) and earnings per share were being reduced from a profit of $.07 to a net loss per share of approximately $0.20 to $0.22. Contemporaneously, FVC announced that revenues for the first quarter of 1999 were
expected to be significantly below analyst expectations with a significant loss for the quarter, revenues would be between $8.0 and $8.5 million, and the net loss per share between $0.20 and $0.22. Upon these disclosures, the price of FVC stock fell $10-7/16 to $6-15/16, nearly 60%, in trading of 4.85 million shares, almost 18 times the three-month daily average.
INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION:
SIC Code: 3576
Sector: Technology
Industry: Communications Equipment
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COMPANY/ISSUER NAME: |
FVC.COM, Inc. |
| COMPANY/ISSUER TICKER: |
FVCX |
| COMPANY WEBSITE: |
http://www.fvc.com |
| FIRST IDENTIFIED COMPLAINT IN THE DATABASE |
| Thomas Williams, et al. v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
| COURT: N.D. California | DOCKET NUMBER: 99-CV-1815 |
| JUDGE NAME: Hon. Charles R. Breyer |
| DATE FILED: 04/09/1999 | SOURCE: Business Wires | | CLASS PERIOD START: 01/21/1999 | CLASS PERIOD END: 04/06/1999 | | TYPE OF COMPLAINT: Unamended/Unconsolidated | | PLAINTIFF FIRMS IN THIS OR SIMILAR CASE: |
Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll PLLC (Seattle WA) 701 Fifth Avenue, Suite 6860, Seattle, WA, 98014
(voice) 206.521.0080, (fax) 206.521.0166, lawinfo@cmht.com
Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP (San Diego, CA) 600 West Broadway, 1800 One America Plaza, San Diego, CA, 92101
(voice) 800.449.4900, (fax) , support@milberg.com
Schubert & Reed LLP Two Embarcadero Center, Suite 1050, San Francisco, CA, 94111
(voice) 415.788.4220, (fax) 415.788.0161, mail@schubert-reed.com
Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10016
(voice) 212.545.4600, (fax) 212.686.0114, newyork@whafh.com
_____________________________________________ TOTAL NUMBER OF PLAINTIFF FIRMS: 4 | | REFERENCE COMPLAINT | | In Re: FVC.COM, Inc. Securities Litigation | | COURT: N.D. California | DOCKET NUMBER: 99-CV-1815 | | JUDGE NAME: Hon. Charles R. Breyer | | DATE FILED: 09/27/1999 | SOURCE: Business Wires | | CLASS PERIOD START: 01/21/1999 | CLASS PERIOD END: 04/06/1999 | | TYPE OF COMPLAINT: Consolidated and/or Amended | | PLAINTIFF FIRMS NAMED IN COMPLAINT: |
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP (Westfield, NJ) 220 St. Paul Street, Westfield, NJ, 07090
(voice) 908.928.1700, (fax) 908.301.9008, blbg@blbglaw.com
Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll PLLC (Seattle WA) 701 Fifth Avenue, Suite 6860, Seattle, WA, 98014
(voice) 206.521.0080, (fax) 206.521.0166, lawinfo@cmht.com
Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll PLLC (Seattle WA) 701 Fifth Avenue, Suite 6860, Seattle, WA, 98014
(voice) 206.521.0080, (fax) 206.521.0166, lawinfo@cmht.com
Jeffrey S. Abraham 60 East 42nd St - Suite 4700, New York, NY, 10165
(voice) 212.692.0555, (fax) ,
Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer, LLP (New York, NY) 805 Third Avenue, 22nd Floor, New York, NY, 10022
(voice) 212.687.1980, (fax) 212.687.7714, info@kaplanfox.com
Law Offices of Bruce G. Murphy 265 Llwyds Lane, Vero Beach La, FL, 32963
(voice) 561.231.4202, (fax) ,
Lionel Z. Glancy 1801 Avenue of the Stars Suite 308, Los Angeles, CA, 90067
(voice) 310.201.9150, (fax) ,
Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP (S.F., CA) 100 Pine Street - Suite 2600, San Francisco, CA, 94111
(voice) 415.288.4545, (fax) 415.288.4534,
Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP (Seattle, WA) 1001 Fourth Avenue - Suite 3200, Seattle, WA, 98154
(voice) 206.839.0730, (fax) ,
Rabin & Peckel LLP 275 Madison Avenue, 34th Floor, New York, NY, 10016
(voice) 212.682.1818, (fax) 212.682.1892, email@rabinlaw.com
Schubert & Reed LLP Two Embarcadero Center, Suite 1050, San Francisco, CA, 94111
(voice) 415.788.4220, (fax) 415.788.0161, mail@schubert-reed.com
Scott & Scott LLC P.O. Box 192, 108 Norwich Avenue, Colchester, CT, 06415
(voice) 860.537.5537, (fax) 860.537.4432, scottlaw@scott-scott.com
Stull, Stull & Brody (Los Angeles) 10940 Wilshire Boulevard - Suite 2300, Los Angeles, CA, 90024
(voice) 310.209.2468, (fax) ,
Weiss & Yourman (Los Angeles, CA) 10940 Wilshire Blvd - 24th Floor, Los Angeles, CA, 90024
(voice) 310.208.2800, (fax) 310.209.2348, info@wyca.com
Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10016
(voice) 212.545.4600, (fax) 212.686.0114, newyork@whafh.com
Wolf Popper, LLP 845 Third Avenue, New York, NY, 10022-6689Ave
(voice) 877.370.7703, (fax) 212.486.2093, IRRep@wolfpopper.com
_____________________________________________ TOTAL NUMBER OF PLAINTIFF FIRMS: 16 | | | OTHER DOCUMENTS | | Class Action Complaint for Violation of Federal Securities Laws |
| Case Name and/or Number: Zurofsky v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Complaint | Date on the document: 04/12/1999 | | Class Action Complaint for Violation of Federal Securities Laws |
| Case Name and/or Number: Kuhn v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Complaint | Date on the document: 04/12/1999 | | Complaint for Violation of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 |
| Case Name and/or Number: Mesko v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Complaint | Date on the document: 04/14/1999 | | Class Action Complaint for the Violation of Federal Securities Laws |
| Case Name and/or Number: Moy v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Complaint | Date on the document: 04/15/1999 | | Complaint for Violation of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 |
| Case Name and/or Number: Von Bergen, et al. v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Complaint | Date on the document: 04/19/1999 | | Docket |
| Case Name and/or Number: Moy v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Docket | Date on the document: 04/26/1999 | | Litigants |
| Case Name and/or Number: Moy v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Other | Date on the document: 04/26/1999 | | Complaint for Violation of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 |
| Case Name and/or Number: Anderson v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Complaint | Date on the document: 04/27/1999 | | Docket |
| Case Name and/or Number: Mesko v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Docket | Date on the document: 04/27/1999 | | Docket |
| Case Name and/or Number: Von Bergen, et al. v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Docket | Date on the document: 04/30/1999 | | Litigants |
| Case Name and/or Number: Von Bergen, et al. v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Other | Date on the document: 04/30/1999 | | Complaint for Violation of the Federal Securities Laws |
| Case Name and/or Number: McGee, et al. v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Complaint | Date on the document: 05/05/1999 | | Docket |
| Case Name and/or Number: Zurofsky v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Docket | Date on the document: 05/05/1999 | | Docket |
| Case Name and/or Number: Kuhn v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Docket | Date on the document: 05/05/1999 | | Litigants |
| Case Name and/or Number: Zurofsky v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Other | Date on the document: 05/05/1999 | | Class Action Complaint for the Violation of Federal Securities Laws |
| Case Name and/or Number: Plumbing Solutions, Inc. v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Complaint | Date on the document: 05/06/1999 | | Docket |
| Case Name and/or Number: Anderson v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Docket | Date on the document: 05/06/1999 | | Litigants |
| Case Name and/or Number: Anderson v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Other | Date on the document: 05/06/1999 | | Declaration of Peter A. Binkow |
| Case Name and/or Number: McGee, et al. v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Declaration | Date on the document: 05/27/1999 | | Docket |
| Case Name and/or Number: McGee, et al. v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Docket | Date on the document: 07/28/1999 | | Docket |
| Case Name and/or Number: Plumbing Solutions, Inc. v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Docket | Date on the document: 07/28/1999 | | Litigants |
| Case Name and/or Number: McGee, et al. v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Other | Date on the document: 07/28/1999 | | Litigants |
| Case Name and/or Number: Plumbing Solutions, Inc. v. FVC.COM, Inc., et al. |
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