KATZ v. REALTY EQUITIES CORPORATION OF NEW YORK

Nos. 583, 719, Dockets 74-2053, 74-2054.

521 F.2d 1354 (1975)

George KATZ, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. REALTY EQUITIES CORPORATION OF NEW YORK et al., Defendants-Appellees, and Klein, Hinds & Finke and Alexander Grant & Company, Defendants-Appellants. Kenneth I. HERMAN, Trustee F/B/O Sheril Esta Kupfer, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. REPUBLIC NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellees, and Klein, Hinds & Finke and Alexander Grant & Company, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 30, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph P. Napoli, Harry H. Lipsig, New York City, Stuart D. Wechsler, Robert S. Schachter, Samuel K. Rosen, Kass, Goodkind, Wechsler & Gerstein, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellees.

James R. Hawkins, II, Richard P. Lasko, Andrew S. O'Connor, Shearman & Sterling, New York City, for Klein, Hinds & Finke and Alexander Grant & Co.

Sheldon Oliensis, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, New York City, for Realty Equities and Republic National and certain other defendants-appellees.

Before WATERMAN, FRIENDLY and GURFEIN, Circuit Judges.


WATERMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal concerns an order of a district judge requiring the filing and service of a single consolidated complaint for pretrial purposes upon defendants in a number of related securities cases. We affirm the order which, under the circumstances present, was a proper exercise of the trial judge's authority in the management of the preliminary stages of complex multiparty litigation.

On March 8, 1974 the Securities and Exchange Commission...

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