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G. Martin Meyers Announces Class Action Complaint Filed on Behalf of Former Shareholders of Coram Healthcare Corporation.


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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 2000

The Law Offices of G. Martin Meyers, P.C. announced today, pursuant to Section 21(D)(a)(3)(A)(i) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act"), notice that a class action lawsuit class action lawsuit

A lawsuit in which one party or a limited number of parties sue on behalf of a larger group to which the parties belong. For example, investors may bring a class action lawsuit against a brokerage firm that has actively promoted a tax
 was filed on November 8, 2000, in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey is the Federal district court whose jurisdiction is the state of New Jersey. It was established in 1789. New Jersey is the largest state by population to only have one District Court.

The Honorable Garrett E.
, on behalf of all persons who were holders of shares of the common stock of Coram Healthcare Corporation ("Coram"), on or before August 8, 2000, and who sold some or all of their Coram common stock shares at any time on or after August 8, 2000, following the announcement of Coram's bankruptcy filing issued on that date. The Complaint alleges that the defendants violated Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 thereunder. Specifically, the Complaint alleges that the defendants perpetrated a fraud upon the market for shares of Coram common stock, by circulating materially false and misleading statements and/or omissions in press releases and otherwise, designed to artificially deflate (file format, compression) deflate - A compression standard derived from LZ77; it is reportedly used in zip, gzip, PKZIP, and png, among others.

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 the market price of Coram stock, in furtherance of a plan designed to deprive its stockholders of the value of their equity in the said stock, and provide for Coram's emergence from bankruptcy proceedings bankruptcy proceedings n. the bankruptcy procedure is: a) filing a petition (voluntary or involuntary) to declare a debtor person or business bankrupt, or, under Chapter 11 or 13, to allow reorganization or refinancing under a plan to meet the debts of the party  as a "privately held company privately held company

A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly.
," depriving plaintiffs and the proposed class of Coram stockholders of fair compensation for the value of their Coram common stock.

The Complaint names as defendants three entities holding long-term indebtedness of Coram in the approximate amount of $260 million, including Cerberus Partners, L.P., Goldman, Sachs Credit Partners, L.P., Foothill Capital Corporation, (collectively the "Lender Defendants"), and the present and former officers and directors of Coram, and of the Lender defendants or their affiliates, who participated in the alleged scheme of securities fraud which forms the basis for the action, including Stephen Feinberg, Daniel D. Crowley, Scott R. Danitz, Scott T. Larsen, Allen J. Marabito, Domenic A. Meffe, Vito Ponzio, Jr., Joseph D. Smith, Richard M. Smith, Donald J. Amaral, William J. Casey, L. Peter Smith, and Sandra L. Smoley, (collectively, the "Officer and Director Defendants"). Coram itself is not named as a defendant as it is or was the subject of bankruptcy proceedings, as of the date of the filing of the Complaint, and the filing of an Amended Complaint amended complaint n. what results when the party suing (plaintiff or petitioner) changes the complaint he/she has filed. It must be in writing, and can be done before the complaint is served on any defendant, by agreement between the parties (usually their lawyers), , on November 15, 2000.

Any member of the proposed class may move the court to serve as lead plaintiff no later than sixty days from the date of this notice.

If you wish to discuss this action, or you have any questions concerning this notice you may, but are not required to, contact:

G. Martin Meyers, Esq. Law Offices of G. Martin Meyers, P.C. 35 West Main Street, Suite 106 Denville, New Jersey Denville Township is a Township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 15,824. Denville is known as the "Hub of Morris County" for its location along major transportation routes at the center of the county.  07834 973 625-0838 Fax: 973 625-5350 Internet Address There are two kinds of addresses that are widely used on the Internet. One is a person's e-mail address, and the other is the address of a Web site, which is known as a URL. Following is an explanation of Internet e-mail addresses only. For more on URLs, see URL and Internet domain name. : garymeyers@nac.net
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