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Juniper Networks, Inc.
Summary: According to the Company’s Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2008, on July 14, 2006 and August 29, 2006, two purported class actions were filed in the Northern District of California against the Company and certain of the Company’s current and former officers and directors. On November 20, 2006, the Court consolidated the two actions as In re Juniper Networks, Inc. Securities Litigation, No. C06-04327-JW, and appointed the New York City Pension Funds as lead plaintiffs. The lead plaintiffs filed a Consolidated Class Action Complaint on January 12, 2007, and filed an Amended Consolidated Class Action Complaint on April 9, 2007. The Amended Consolidated Complaint alleges that the defendants violated federal securities laws by manipulating stock option grant dates to coincide with low stock prices and issuing false and misleading statements including, among others, incorrect financial statements due to the improper accounting of stock option grants. The Amended Consolidated Complaint asserts claims for violations of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 on behalf of all persons who purchased or otherwise acquired Juniper Networks’ publicly traded securities from July 12, 2001, through and including August 10, 2006. On June 7, 2007, the defendants filed a motion to dismiss certain of the claims, and a hearing was held on September 10, 2007. On March 31, 2008, the Court issued an order granting in part and denying in part the defendants’ motion to dismiss. The order dismissed with prejudice plaintiffs’ section 10(b) claim to the extent it was based on challenged statements made before July 14, 2001. The order also dismissed, with leave to amend plaintiffs’ section 10(b) claim against Pradeep Sindhu. The order upheld all of plaintiffs’ remaining claims. The order gave plaintiffs until May 1, 2008, to file an amended complaint. Plaintiffs chose not to amend their complaint. Defendants filed their answer on June 23, 2008.
The original complaint charges Juniper Networks and its top executive officers and directors violated the federal securities laws by failing to account properly for stock options made to Juniper Networks employees. The complaint charges that Juniper Networks improperly expensed stock options, thereby falsely inflating the company's reported financial performance.
INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION:
SIC Code: 3576
Sector: Technology
Industry: Computer Networks
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COMPANY/ISSUER NAME: |
Juniper Networks, Inc. |
| COMPANY/ISSUER TICKER: |
JNPR |
| COMPANY WEBSITE: |
http://www.juniper.net |
| FIRST IDENTIFIED COMPLAINT IN THE DATABASE |
| Robert L. Garber, et al. v. Juniper Networks, Inc., et al. |
| COURT: N.D. California | DOCKET NUMBER: 06-CV-04327 |
| JUDGE NAME: Hon. Martin J. Jenkins |
| DATE FILED: 7/14/2006 | SOURCE: Notice of Filing | | CLASS PERIOD START: 9/1/2003 | CLASS PERIOD END: 5/22/2006 | | TYPE OF COMPLAINT: Complaint (Unamended and Unconsolidated) | | PLAINTIFF FIRMS NAMED IN COMPLAINT: |
Alexander, Hawes & Audet LLP 221 Main Street, Suite 1460, San Francisco, CA, 94105
(voice) 415.982.1776, (fax) 415.576.1776, info@alexanderlaw.com
Cotchett Pitre & Simon San Francisco Airport Office Center, 840 Malcolm Road, Suite 200, Burlingame, CA, 94010
(voice) 650.697.6000, (fax) ,
Gardy & Notis, LLP 440 Sylvan Avenue, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 07632
(voice) 201-567-7377, (fax) 201-567-7337, info@gardylaw.com
Glancy Binkow & Goldberg LLP (Los Angeles) 1801 Ave. of the Stars, Suite 311, Los Angeles, CA, 90067
(voice) (310) 201-915, (fax) (310) 201-916, info@glancylaw.com
Gold Bennett Cera & Sidener LLP 595 Market Street, Suite 2300, San Francisco, CA, 94105-2835sco
(voice) 800.778.1822, (fax) 415.777.5189, info@gbcsf.com
Law Offices of Alfred G. Yates 519 Alleghany Bldg., 429 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15219
(voice) 412.391.5164, (fax) ,
Schubert & Reed LLP Two Embarcadero Center, Suite 1050, San Francisco, CA, 94111
(voice) 415.788.4220, (fax) 415.788.0161, mail@schubert-reed.com
Stull, Stull & Brody (New York) 6 East 45th Street, New York, NY, 10017
(voice) 310.209.2468, (fax) 310.209.2087, SSBNY@aol.com
_____________________________________________ TOTAL NUMBER OF PLAINTIFF FIRMS: 8 | | REFERENCE COMPLAINT | | In Re: Juniper Networks, Inc. Securities Litigation | | COURT: N.D. California | DOCKET NUMBER: 06-CV-04327 | | JUDGE NAME: Hon. James Ware | | DATE FILED: 4/9/2007 | SOURCE: Docket | | CLASS PERIOD START: 7/12/2001 | CLASS PERIOD END: 8/10/2006 | | TYPE OF COMPLAINT: Consolidated and/or Amended | | PLAINTIFF FIRMS NAMED IN COMPLAINT: |
Lowey, Dannenberg, Bemporad & Selinger, P.C. 1 North Lexington Avenue, 11th Floor, White Plains, NY, 10601-1714
(voice) 914.997.0500, (fax) 914.997.0035, ldbs@wesetnet.com
_____________________________________________ TOTAL NUMBER OF PLAINTIFF FIRMS: 1 | | | OTHER DOCUMENTS | | Shareholder Derivative Complaint |
| Case Name and/or Number: Timothy W. Hill, et al. v. Juniper Networks, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Complaint | Date on the document: 05/24/2006 | | U.S. District Court Civil Docket |
| Case Name and/or Number: Hill, et al. v. Gani, et al. |
| Type: Docket | Date on the document: 07/17/2006 | | Verified Shareholder Derivative Complaint For Violation Of The Federal Securities Laws And State Law Claims For Breach Of Fiduciary Duty, Abuse Of Control, Constructive Fraud, Corporate Waste, Unjust Enrichment, Gross Mismanagement, Action For Accounting And Violation Of California Corporations Code – Demand For Jury Trial |
| Case Name and/or Number: Indiana State District Council of Laborers and HOD Carriers Pension Fund, et al. v. Kriens, et al. |
| Type: Complaint | Date on the document: 08/03/2006 | | Federal Securities Class Action Complaint |
| Case Name and/or Number: John Anderson, et al. v. Juniper Networks, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Complaint | Date on the document: 08/18/2006 | | Order Consolidating Related Derivative Cases And Appointing Lead Plaintiffs And Lead Counsel |
| Case Name and/or Number: In Re: Juniper Networks, Inc. Securities Litigation |
| Type: Order | Date on the document: 04/30/2007 | | Class Action Complaint - Jury Trial Demanded |
| Case Name and/or Number: Marilyn Vardano, et al. v. Juniper Networks, Inc., et al. |
| Type: Complaint | Date on the document: 07/25/2007 | WARNING AND DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY: The information included on this Web site, whether provided by personnel employed by Stanford Law School or by third parties, is provided for research and teaching purposes only. Neither Stanford University, Stanford Law School, nor any of their employees, agents, contractors, or affiliates warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information or analyses displayed herein, and we caution all readers that inclusion of any information on this site does not constitute an endorsement of the truthfulness or accuracy of that information. In particular, this Web site contains complaints and other documents filed in federal and state courts, which make allegations that may or may not be accurate. No reader should, on the basis of information contained in or referenced by this Web site, assume that any of these allegations are truthful. Go to Search page | Go to Case Index page | Back to Top
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