In Re Number Nine Visual Technology Corp. Securities Litigation

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

YOUNG, Chief Judge.

Remember when we were One Ls? How the civil procedure professors extolled the virtues of notice pleading? See, e.g., Jack H. Friedenthal, Mary Kay Kane & Arthur R. Miller, Civil Procedure § 5.7, at 253 (2d ed.1993). This case writes a sad (and overlong) epitaph to that era. Who could have expected that, in little over half a century, society would become so chary of dealing with cases on the merits that the law, like some ancient amphibian, would begin to slip back into the primeval ooze of common law forms of pleading?

1. Introduction

This securities…