Legal Opinion
Klotz v. Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 23, 1974No. 74 Civ. 2911PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WHITMAN KNAPP, District Judge.
Plaintiff, the owner of 1000 shares of Consolidated Edison common stock, brings this derivative action against the members of the Public Service Commission of the State of New' York (the PSC) and the Finance Administrator of the City of New York to obtain on behalf of Con Edison $1.5 billion in damages and certain declaratory relief with respect to the acts of the defendants. Con Edison and its trustees — most of whom have not been served — are named as nominal defendants in the action.
Plaintiff bases this action on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution,…
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