Free Motion to Amend/Correct - District Court of Connecticut - Connecticut

Case 3:03-cv-00383-WIG

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT : : : : : : Plaintiffs : : v. : : WASLEY PRODUCTS, INC., : ALAN A. WASLEY, ANDREW : BRADY, SANDI DUMAS-LAFERRIERE : BARRY CONNELL, BARRY L. : BULAKITES, JAMES A. WINSLOW, : JOSHUA ADAMS CORPORATION. : GREGORY T. PRENTISS, JOHN RIZZI, RICHARD SEICH, and DOROTHY BROWN each individually and on behalf of the Wasley Products, Inc. 401(K) Profit Sharing Plan, CIVIL ACTION NO. 3:03 CV 00383 (MRK)

SEPTEMBER 16, 2005

PLAN PARTICIPANTS' MOTION FOR PERMISSION TO JOIN ADDITIONAL PARTIES, TO AMEND COMPLAINT, AND FOR CERTIFICATION OF DERIVATIVE ACTION UNDER RULE 23.1 Plaintiffs Gregory T. Prentiss, John Rizzi, Richard Seich, and Dorothy Brown ("Plan Participants") ask the Court for permission to amend their complaint to join three additional parties, supplement their claims with claims about the Wasley Products, Inc. Retirement Plan, and ask the Court to certify this as a derivative action under Rule 23.1. As is more particularly set forth in the

accompanying memorandum, the amendment is timely brought and proposed in good faith by the plaintiffs. The proposed amended complaint is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

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THE PLAINTIFFS

By/s/ Thomas G. Moukawsher Thomas G. Moukawsher ct08940 Ian O. Smith ct24135 Moukawsher & Walsh, LLC 21 Oak Street Hartford, CT 06106 (860) 278-7000 [email protected] ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFFS

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CERTIFICATION I hereby certify that a copy of the foregoing has been mailed on this date to the defendant at: Theodore J. Tucci, Esq. Jean Elizabeth Tomasco, Esq. Robinson & Cole 280 Trumbull Street Hartford, CT 06103-3597 Joseph V. Meaney, Jr., Esq. Cranmore, Fitzgerald & Meaney 49 Wethersfield Ave. Hartford, CT. 06114-1102 Marissa A. Bellair, Esq. Steven Errante, Esq. Eric P. Smith, Esq. Nancy Fitzpatrick Myers Lynch, Traub, Keefe, and Errante, LLP 52 Trumbull Street P.O. Box 1612 New Haven, CT. 06506-1612 Sara Simeonidis, Esq. Deborah S. Freeman, Esq. Bryan D. Short, Esq. Bringham McCutchen, LLP 1 State Street Hartford, CT 06103-3178 Maurice T. Fitzmaurice Reid & Riege, P.C. One Financial Plaza 755 Main Street, 21st Floor Hartford, CT 06103-3185 James J. Reardon, Jr. Thomas G. Rohback Doug Dubitsky LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae 225 Asylum St. Hartford, CT 06103

Dated this 16th day of September, 2005.

/s/ Thomas G. Moukawsher Thomas G. Moukawsher

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