In re Boise Cascade Securities Litigation

*460OPINION AND ORDER

Before ALFRED P. MURRAH, Chairman, and JOHN MINOR WISDOM, EDWARD WEINFELD*, EDWIN A. ROBSON, WILLIAM H. BECKER, JOSEPH S. LORD, III, and STANLEY A. WEIGEL, Judges of the Panel. PER CURIAM.

Three actions arising out of the 1969 merger of West Tacoma Newsprint Company into the Boise Cascade Corporation have been brought in the Western District of Washington and consolidated pursuant to an order of that court. Plaintiffs are former stockholders of West Tacoma Newsprint. They allege that Boise Cascade, Arthur Andersen & Company and individual officers and directors of Boise…