Wolf Popper LLP

Education:

  • Fordham University School of Law (J.D., 1989)

Bar Admissions:

  • New York
  • United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  • Supreme Court of the United States
Practice Areas

Carl L. Stine

Partner

cstine@wolfpopper.com
(212) 451-9631

Carl L. Stine is a graduate of Fordham University School of Law (J.D., 1989) where he was the Editor in Chief of the Fordham International Law Journal.  Mr. Stine was named to the 2009, 2010, and 2011 New York Super Lawyers Metro Edition in the area of Securities Litigation.

Since joining Wolf Popper in June of 1995, Mr. Stine has participated in the prosecution of merger and acquisition litigation challenging transactions involving, among others, Wachovia Corporation, OpenTV Corp., Indevus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., The Topps Co., EDO Corp., James River Group, Inc., ftd.com, Genencor International, Inc., Uni-Marts, Inc., Nassda Corp., William Lyon Homes, and Net2Phone, Inc. He has also litigated securities class actions such as against Seitel, Inc., Sunbeam Corp., Archer Daniels Midland Co., Caremark, Inc., and Leslie Fay Co., and consumer fraud class actions against, for example, Express Scripts, Inc., H.I.P of Greater New York, Sprint PCS, Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corp., and NYNEX.

Selected decisions where Mr. Stine served as counsel include:

  • Alaska Elec. Pension Fund v. Brown, 988 A.2d 412 (Del. 2010)
  • Ehrenhaus v. Baker (Wachovia/Wells Fargo), 2008 NCBC 20 (N.C. Super. Ct. 2008)
  • Alaska Elec. Pension Fund v. Brown, 941 A.2d 1011 (Del. 2007)
  • In re Scientific Atlanta, Inc. Sec. Litig., 571 F. Supp. 2d 1315 (N.D. Ga. 2007)
  • In re The Topps Company Shareholders Litigation, 926 A.2d 58 (Del. Ch. 2007)
  • In re The Topps Company Shareholders Litigation, 924 A.2d 951 (Del. Ch. 2007)
  • In re Seitel, Inc. Securities Litigation, 447 F. Supp. 2d 693 (S.D. Tex. 2006);
  • Yang v. Odom, 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18089 (D.N.J. 2005);
  • Yang v. Odom, 392 F. 3d 97 (3d Cir. 2004);
  • In re U.S. Liquids Securities Litigation, 2002 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26713 (S.D. Tex. 2002);
  • Blatt v. Muse Technologies, Inc., 2002 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18466 (D. Mass. 2002);
  • In re Sunbeam Securities Litigation, 176 F. Supp. 2d 1323 (S.D. Fla. 2001);
  • In re Sunbeam Securities Litigation, 261 B.R. 534 (S.D. Fla. 2001);
  • Collmer v. U.S. Liquids, Inc., 268 F. Supp. 2d 718 (S.D. Tex. 2001);
  • In re World Access, Inc. Securities Litigation, 119 F. Supp. 2d 1348 (N.D. Ga. 2000);
  • In re Sunbeam Securities Litigation, 89 F. Supp. 2d 1326 (S.D. Fla. 1999);
  • Taylor v. American Bankers Ins.Group, Inc., 267 A.D.2d 178, 700 N.Y.S.2d 458 (1st Dep't 1999);
  • In re WebSecure, Inc. Securities Litigation, 182 F.R.D. 364 (D. Mass. 1998);
  • Tanzer v. Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York, 238 A.D.2d 109, 665 N.Y.S.2d 493 (N.Y. App. Div. 1st Dep't), rev'd, 91 N.Y.2d 850 (1997);
  • In re Caremark International, Inc. Securities Litigation, 1997 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10948 (N.D. Ill. 1997);
  • Lerner v. Tele-Communications, Inc., 215 A.D.2d 731, 627 N.Y.S.2d 733 (N.Y. App. Div. 2d Dep't 1995);
  • Sheerbonnet, Ltd. v. American Express Bank Ltd., 17 F.3d 46 (2d Cir. 1994).

Mr. Stine is admitted to the New York State Bar, and the Bars of the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Eastern District of Michigan, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Stine became a partner at Wolf Popper on January 1, 2002.