{"id":340,"date":"2016-10-07T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T00:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nixlaw.wpengine.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=340"},"modified":"2025-08-13T00:01:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:01:40","slug":"npr-defeats-motion-to-dismiss-by-seaworld-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/es\/practice-areas\/class-action\/npr-defeats-motion-to-dismiss-by-seaworld-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"NP Defeats Motion to Dismiss by Seaworld Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NP serves as co-Lead Counsel in this action on behalf of Lead Plaintiff Arkansas Public Retirement System, representing a class of investors in SeaWorld securities in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. The class alleges that SeaWorld made false and misleading statements concerning the cause of its unprecedented attendance declines in 2013 and 2014, which came on the heels of the documentary, <em>Blackfish<\/em>, a film that indicted the very core of SeaWorld\u2019s operations. On September 30, 2016, District Judge Michael Anello denied the defendants\u2019 motion to dismiss the Second Amended Complaint in its entirety. Judge Anello found NP adequately pled each element of Section 10b and Rule 10b-5 of the Securities Exchange Act against SeaWorld, and that NP also sufficiently pled violations of Section 20(a) against the individual defendants and The Blackstone Group, L.P., as control persons.<\/p>\n<p>NP\u2019s complex litigation team\u2014partners Jeffrey Angelovich, Brad Beckworth, Susan Whatley, Lisa Baldwin, Trey Duck, and Drew Pate\u2014lead the prosecution of this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"news_attorney_categories":[15,37,23,38,26,32],"news_categories":[17],"news_practice_areas":[307],"news_years":[45],"class_list":["post-340","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_attorney_categories-bradley-beckworth","news_attorney_categories-drew-pate","news_attorney_categories-jeffrey-angelovich","news_attorney_categories-lisa-baldwin","news_attorney_categories-susan-whatley","news_attorney_categories-trey-duck","news_categories-case-update","news_years-45"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SeaWorld Motion to Dismiss Denied | Nix Patterson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/practice-areas\/class-action\/npr-defeats-motion-to-dismiss-by-seaworld-entertainment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SeaWorld Motion to Dismiss Denied | Nix Patterson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NP serves as co-Lead Counsel in this action on behalf of Lead Plaintiff Arkansas Public Retirement System, representing a class of investors in SeaWorld securities in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. 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