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Exhibit (a)(1)(JJ)
For immediate release
December 1, 2000
Contact:
pcOrder.com, Inc. Trilogy Software, Inc.
Tiffany O'Brien Krista Rollins
512.684.1171 512.425.3128
[email protected] [email protected]
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TRILOGY SOFTWARE, INC. AND PCORDER.COM INC.
REMOVE LATEST CLASS ACTION TO FEDERAL COURT
AND ASK FEDERAL COURT TO DISSOLVE TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
AUSTIN, TEXAS, December 1, 2000 - Trilogy Software, Inc. and pcOrder.com, Inc.
(NASDAQ:PCOR) today jointly announced that Trilogy, pcOrder and the individual
members of the pcOrder Board of Directors have removed to the Austin Division of
the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas the purported
class action lawsuit filed against them on November 28, 2000, by Marilyn Stahl
in the District Court of Travis County, Texas.
As announced yesterday, in connection with Ms. Stahl's lawsuit, the District
Court of Travis County, Texas issued a temporary restraining order that
prohibits until December 12, 2000 the defendants from proceeding with Trilogy's
cash tender offer to acquire all of pcOrder's outstanding Class A common stock
at a price of $6.375 per share. The order was issued on an ex parte basis and
the defendants in the action were not notified that an application had been made
to the court for a temporary restraining order and the defendants were not
provided with an opportunity to contest the application. The defendants have
filed a motion today with the federal court seeking to dissolve the temporary
restraining order.
Including the lawsuit filed by Ms. Stahl, three purported class action lawsuits
have been filed in the District Court of Travis County, Texas with respect to
the tender offer. The defendants have previously removed one of the other
lawsuits from the Texas state court to the federal court. In that lawsuit,
which was filed by James F. Martens, the defendants filed a motion on November
22, 2000 with the federal court seeking dismissal with prejudice of the Martens
lawsuit on the grounds that the plaintiff's claims are preempted by the
Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998. On November 30, 2000, Mr.
Martens attempted without leave of court to dismiss the lawsuit without
prejudice. The defendants, in objecting to this attempted dismissal, have
informed the federal court today that they believe that, under the applicable
rules of procedure, the plaintiff's attempt to voluntarily dismiss the lawsuit
without prejudice is improper and an effort to circumvent the court's ability to
consider the interests of the class that Mr. Martens purports to represent.
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