Legal Opinion

In Re Commonwealth Oil/Tesoro Petroleum Securities Litigation

United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation

Decided September 20, 1978No. 347PublishedCited by 17 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION AND ORDER

2Per curiam

I. BACKGROUND

This litigation consists of four actions pending in two districts — three in the Southern District of New York and one in the Western District of Texas. The actions are all brought under, inter alia, the federal securities laws. The major defendants in these actions are Commonwealth Oil Refining Company (CORCO), TESORO Petroleum Corporation (TESORO) and certain present and former officers and directors of CORCO and/or TESORO. TESORO and eight of the individual defendants are named in all four actions, one individual defendant is named in three actions, COR-CO and…

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