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LUSTGARTEN v. MERRILL LYNCH, ETC.

Civ. A. No. 79-3481.

528 F.Supp. 1125 (1981)

Paul G. LUSTGARTEN and Jacqueline Lustgarten v. MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH, INC.; Krekstein, Shapiro, Bressler & Wolfson, P. C.; Michael R. Harris, Esq.; Bradford E. Beadle; and American Guaranty & Trust Company.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

December 31, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard Schaeffer, William H. Bishop, Pechner, Dorfman, Wolffe, Rounick & Cabot, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Stewart Dalzell, Lynne E. Prymas, Philadelphia, Pa., for American Guaranty.

C. Clark Hodgson, Jr., Georganne Daher Terrill, Philadelphia, Pa., for Merrill Lynch and Bradford E. Beadle.

Bruce D. Lomardo, Philadelphia, Pa., for Krekstein, Shapiro.

MEMORANDUM

LOUIS H. POLLAK, District Judge.

This is an action for professional malpractice. Plaintiffs Paul and Jacqueline Lustgarten, faced with the distressing prospect of owing the Government a sizeable sum of money in the way of a deficiency in their federal income tax return for 1971, seek to recover money damages. They allege that their predicament results from the negligence of the various defendants in rendering tax advice in connection with an ill...

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