Legal Opinion
In re Glenn W. Turner Enterprises Litigation
United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided September 11, 1979No. 109Published
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
2Per curiam
The Panel previously centralized several actions in the above-captioned litigation in the Western District of Pennsylvania before the Honorable Gerald J. Weber for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407.1 The centralized actions involve allegations that Dare to be Great, Inc. and Koscot Interplanetary, Inc. (Koscot), two subsidiaries of Glenn W. Turner Enterprises, Inc., violated the federal securities laws by engaging in pyramidal marketing schemes. Many of the actions in the transferee district were brought as class actions by persons…
3Cases cited4 opinions
- In Re Republic National-Realty Equities Securities LitigationUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1974
- In Re Air Crash Disaster in Ionian SeaUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1977
- In Re Glenn W. Turner Enterprises LitigationUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1973
- In re Glenn W. Turner Enterprises LitigationUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1974