Klint Bruno

Klint Bruno is a trial and appellate lawyer and is the head of Roach Langston Bruno’s appellate section. Prior to his joining Roach Langston Bruno, Klint has focused his entire career on complex civil litigation. He has successfully represented plaintiffs in state and federal courts across the United States, including the United States Supreme Court.

The following is a list of published decisions related to the prosecution of cases involving securities:

Kircher v. Putnam Funds Trust, 547 U.S. 633 (2006)
Kircher v. Putnam Funds Trust, 403 F.3d 478 (7th Cir. 2005).
Brockway v. Evergreen Int'l Trust, 496 F. App'x 357 (4th Cir. 2012)
In re Mutual Funds Inv. Litig., 2009 WL 225931 (4th Cir. 2009)
In re Mutual Funds Investment Litigation, 309 Fed. Appx. 722 (4th Cir.2009)
In re Mut. Fund Mkt.-Timing Litig., 495 F.3d 366 (7th Cir. 2007)
In re Mut. Fund Mkt.-Timing Litig., 468 F.3d 439 (7th Cir. 2006)
Kircher v. Putnam Funds Trust, 922 N.E.2d 1164 (Ill. App. Ct. 2010)
Jackson v. Van Kampen Series Fund, Inc., 2007 WL 2068343 (S.D. Ill. 2007)
Jackson v. Van Kampen Series Fund, Inc., 2007 WL 1532090 (S.D. Ill. 2007)
Kircher v. Putnam Funds Trust, 2007 WL 1532116 (S.D. Ill. 2007)
Potter v. Janus Inv. Fund, 483 F.Supp.2d 692 (S.D. Ill. 2007)
Spurgeon v. Pacific Life Ins. Co., 2007 WL 685943 (S.D. Ill. 2007)
Bradfisch v. Templeton Funds, Inc., 2006 WL 3370171 (S.D. Ill. 2006)
Bradfisch v. Templeton Funds, Inc., 2005 WL 1653798 (S.D. Ill. 2005)
Potter v. Janus Inv. Fund, 2004 WL 1173201 (S.D. Ill. 2004)
Parthasarthy v. T. Rowe Price Int’l Funds, 2004 WL 5190017 (S.D. Ill. 2004)
Bradfisch v. Templeton Funds, Inc., 319 F.Supp.2d 897 (S.D. Ill. 2004)

Klint also has prosecuted cases on behalf of trustees of retirement plans against a number of 401(k) plan providers for taking undisclosed payments from money managers in exchange for inclusion in the plan’s offerings. The payments themselves were never disclosed to the plan trustees and were in violation of ERISA. Those cases include:

Leimkuehler v. Am. United Life Ins. Co., 713 F.3d 905 (7th Cir. 2013)

Leimkuehler v. Am. United Life Ins. Co., 2012 WL 28608 (S.D. Ind. 2012)

Lemkuehler v. Am. United Life Ins. Co., 2012 WL 1969052 (S.D. Ind. 2012)

Ruppert v. Principal Life Ins. Co., 134 S. Ct. 152, 187 L. Ed. 2d 39 (2013)

Ruppert v. Principal Life Insurance Co., 705 F.3d 839 (8th Cir. 2013)

Ruppert v. Principal Life Ins. Co., 2007 WL 2025233 (S.D. Ill. 2007)

Ruppert v. Principal Life Ins. Co., 252 F.R.D. 488 (S.D. Iowa 2008)

Ruppert v. Principal Life Ins. Co., 796 F. Supp. 2d 959 (S.D. Iowa 2010)

Ruppert v. Principal Life Ins. Co., 813 F. Supp. 2d 1089 (S.D. Iowa 2010)

Ruppert v. Principal Life Ins. Co., 2011 WL 13285741 (S.D. Iowa 2011)

Most recently and with Keith Langston, Klint represented of a class of investors in life and viatical settlements and defended the class’s $1.087 billion settlement in the Fifth Circuit. Matter of Life Partners, Inc., 708 Fed. Appx. 831 (5th Cir. 2017).

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