The law firm, Bryan Cave, one of the defendants with Darl McBride in the litigation brought by Pelican Equity, has now joined McBride in filing a motion to dismiss the complaint. Technically, it's the First Amended Complaint [PDF]. Bryan Cave argues that the plaintiff was given a chance to amend but that the amended complaint is also deficient. It has not shown any evidence of any wrongdoing by the firm. If there was wrongdoing, it didn't know about it, and without actual knowledge of the alleged conspiracy, how can the firm be guilty of aiding and abetting? And it relies upon the Supreme Court's May ruling in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, that a complaint has to be plausible, with sufficient facts to state a claim.

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