Legal Opinion
Donohoe v. Consolidated Operating & Production Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 28, 1994No. 93-3610PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
We address here the one remaining issue in this complex securities fraud suit arising out of an ill-fated oil-drilling project. The plaintiffs’ claim, in a nutshell, is that the defendants fraudulently lured them into investing in a project to drill oil wells on land *909in which the defendants fully knew there wasn’t any oil to be found.1 Terrence Dono-hoe and 58 other aggrieved investors brought suit against Consolidated Operating & Production Corporation (COPCO) and its principals and shareholders: Jack Nortman, Mor-ando Berrettini, Dennis Bridges and two companies that…
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