Legal Opinion
Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Worldwide Commodity Corp.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided April 26, 2005No. 2:04-cv-03641PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
ANITA B. BRODY, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
Plaintiff Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) has filed suit against individual defendants Steven La-bell, Joseph L. Allen, Bruce N. Crown, Phil Ferrini, and Larry Kahn, as well as Worldwide Commodity Corporation (“Worldwide”), and Universal Financial Holding Corporation (“UFHC”) for violating the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), 7 U.S.C. §§ 1-26, and its regulations. Before me now is UFHC’s motion to dismiss CFTC’s complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction and improper venue. For the reasons that follow, I will deny…
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