Legal Opinion
Matter of Lake States Commodities, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided July 24, 1996No. 96 C 0587PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
ASPEN, Chief Judge:
The plaintiffs in these consolidated actions are a group of investors who allegedly lost large sums of money entrusted to Thomas Collins and Lake States Commodities. On January 25, 1996, we accepted reassignment of eleven of these actions in order to coordinate pretrial discovery and consider the merits of a single motion to dismiss that raised issues common to all the actions. Presently before us is Geldermann’s motion to dismiss all counts against it. For the reasons set forth below, the motion is granted in part and denied in part, and the…
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