Over the weekend, the Associated Press reported that state public employee pension funds in Ohio and California have declined to join the federal securities class action against AOL. Instead, they have sued AOL separately in state court based on the same conduct. Note that this is part of a trend for the Ohio funds, which have also sued Enron and WorldCom in state court.
Quote of note: “‘The class-action lawsuit, you get peanuts at the end of it,’ Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro said.”
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