Legal Opinion
John P. Kennedy v. Venrock Associates
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 18, 2003No. 02-4330PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit by common shareholders of Cadant, Inc. (now CDX Corporation). The defendants are two corporate entities that we’ll call “Venroek” and “J.P. Morgan” and individuals associated with them, but we defer consideration of the individual defendants to the end of the opinion and till then use “defendants” to denote just the entities. The suit is based on federal securities law and state antifraud law. It charges the defendants, though they are not affiliated with each other (an important point to stress, because throughout the plaintiffs’ briefs the defendants are…
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