Legal Opinion
Schnitzer v. O'CONNOR
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided July 7, 1995No. 1—93—3887, 1—94—1277 consPublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRESIDING JUSTICE COUSINS
delivered the opinion of the court:
The plaintiff, Trude Schnitzer, filed a shareholder derivative suit on behalf of Commonwealth Edison Company (Edison) against the defendants — certain present and former directors of Edison — alleging a breach of their duties regarding the construction of nuclear power plants. Six months before the Schnitzer complaint, another Edison shareholder, Bertha Miller, had filed a shareholder derivative suit against the same defendants alleging the same breach of duties in Miller v. Thomas, No. 93 CH 9532. While the Miller plaintiffs had…
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