Legal Opinion
Jordon v. New York Mercantile Exchange
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 29, 1983No. 79 Civ. 3157, 81 Civ. 1239 and 81 Civ. 1964PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SOFAER, District Judge.
Plaintiffs in all three of these cases have sued the New York Mercantile Exchange (“Exchange”), various Exchange officers, and members of the Exchange’s Board of Governors (“Board”) in connection with emergency actions taken by the Exchange concerning the March, April, and May 1979 Maine-potato futures contracts. The Exchange provides facilities as well as an organizational structure for the trading of commodity futures contracts. Its activities are authorized and regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”), pursuant to the Commodity…
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