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141947P.pdf   06/22/2015  Thomas Podraza  v.  Richard Whiting
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  14-1947
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Wollman and Smith, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Securities Fraud. In action by shareholders alleging 
   defendants, officers of Patriot Coal, violated various provisions of the 
   Securities and Exchange Act by fraudulently capitalizing environmental 
   remediation facilities' installations costs to avoid the impact expensing 
   the costs would have had on Patriot's bottom line, the district court did 
   not err in dismissing the action on the ground the complaint did not meet 
   the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995's heightened 
   requirement for pleading scienter.