Legal Opinion
In re Eaton Vance Corp. Securities Litigation
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided December 16, 2003No. CIV.A. 01-10911-EFHPublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
HARRINGTON, Senior District Judge.
This case involves allegations that the defendants violated federal securities laws by issuing false and misleading registration statements in connection with four separate investment funds. Now pending before this Court is the named plaintiffs’ motion for class certification. The named plaintiffs seek to represent a class of investors who purchased shares in all four funds between May 25,1998 and March 5, 2001. For the reasons stated below, the plaintiffs’ motion is granted in part, and denied in part.
I. BACKGROUND
The defendants in this…
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