Legal Opinion
Lasala v. Lloyds TSB Bank, PLC
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 15, 2007No. 06 CIV.4335(CSH)PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
HAIGHT, Senior District Judge.
In this diversity action, plaintiffs seek to hold defendant Lloyds TSB Bank, PLC (“Lloyds” or “the Bank”) responsible for its alleged role in connection with a massive “pump and dump” scheme perpetrated by two corporate insiders of a software company, who fraudulently inflated the company’s value and then sold their shares and funneled these funds through banks in Switzerland and elsewhere. In this motion defendant seeks to dismiss the complaint on three separate grounds: (1) forum non conveniens; (2) preemption of the claims by the…
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