Legal Opinion
Spiegel v. Continental Illinois National Bank
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided April 16, 1985No. 84 C 8255PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
ASPEN, District Judge:
This is a “civil RICO” action, 1 filed under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961 et seq. In brief, the complaint alleges that the defendants Continental Bank (“Continental”) and several bank officials used a pattern of mail fraud to hide Continental’s use of trust income for its own benefit. The plaintiff Marshall Spiegel (“Spiegel”) is the sole income beneficiary of the “Oscar Spiegel Trust” (“the Trust”), and he has sued on behalf of a purported class of trust beneficiaries similarly defrauded by Continental. Continental moved to dismiss the case as barred by…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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- Federated Department Stores, Inc. v. MoitieSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Pereira v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Haroco, Inc. v. American National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago, Walter E. Heller International Corporation, & Ronald J. GrayheckCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1985
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3Cited by17 opinions
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