{"id":519,"date":"2017-05-19T15:34:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T15:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nixlaw.wpengine.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=519"},"modified":"2025-08-13T07:56:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:56:01","slug":"npr-and-co-lead-counsel-move-to-certify-class-in-seaworld-securities-litigation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/es\/practice-areas\/securities-litigation-portfolio-monitoring\/npr-and-co-lead-counsel-move-to-certify-class-in-seaworld-securities-litigation\/","title":{"rendered":"NP Moves to Certify Class in SeaWorld Securities Litigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 19, 2017, NP and its co-counsel moved for class certification of the claims of investors in securities of SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc., in the SeaWorld Securities Litigation pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. In this case, NP serves as Co-Lead Counsel on behalf of Lead Plaintiffs Arkansas Public Retirement System and Pensionskassen For B\u00f8rne-Og Ungdomsp\u00e6dagoger. Under the protective order entered by the Court in the litigation, NPR\u2019s motion for class certification currently is filed under seal. A hearing on the motion is set for November 13, 2017, in San Diego, California.<\/p>\n<p>The class alleges that SeaWorld made false and misleading statements concerning the cause of its unprecedented attendance declines and other business concerns in 2013 and 2014, which came on the heels of a documentary, <em>Blackfish<\/em>\u2014a film that indicted SeaWorld\u2019s core business and operations and sparked public outrage over the Company\u2019s treatment of its orca whales. The class asserts claims under Section 10b and Rule 10b-5 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 against SeaWorld and certain of its former officers, and under Section 20(a) of the Exchange Act against the officers and the private equity firm that took SeaWorld public in 2013, The Blackstone Group, L.P. On September 30, 2016, U.S. District Judge Michael Anello denied the defendants\u2019 motion to dismiss the class\u2019 Second Amended Complaint in its entirety and allowed the litigation to proceed into discovery.<\/p>\n<p>NP\u2019s complex litigation team\u2014partners Jeffrey Angelovich, Brad Beckworth, Susan Whatley Lisa Baldwin, Trey Duck, Drew Pate, and associate Cody Hill\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":[15,36,37,23,38,26,32],"news_categories":[17],"news_practice_areas":[304],"news_years":[],"class_list":["post-519","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_attorney_categories-bradley-beckworth","news_attorney_categories-cody-hill","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"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SeaWorld Litigation Class Certified | 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\/securities-litigation-portfolio-monitoring\/npr-and-co-lead-counsel-move-to-certify-class-in-seaworld-securities-litigation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SeaWorld Litigation Class Certified | Nix Patterson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On May 19, 2017, NP and its co-counsel moved for class certification of the claims of investors in securities of SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc., in the SeaWorld Securities Litigation pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. 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