GORDON v. HUNT

No. 82 Civ. 1318(MEL).

551 F.Supp. 509 (1982)

Ronald GORDON, Plaintiff, v. Nelson Bunker HUNT, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

November 24, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert I. Deutsch, P.C., New York City, for plaintiff; Herbert I. Deutsch, Robert E. Frey, Richard L. Weingarten, New York City, of counsel.

Hughes Hubbard & Reed, New York City, Powell Pierpoint, George A. Davidson, Susan L. Thorner, Margaret G. King, New York City, of counsel; and Shank, Irwin, Contant & Williamson, Dallas, Tex., Roger Goldburg, Roderic G. Steakley, Dallas, Tex., of counsel, for defendants Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt.

Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, for defendants Bache Group, Inc. and Bache Halsey Stuart Shields Inc.; Marvin Schwartz, Nadine Strossen, Richard H. Klapper, New York City, of counsel.

Rogers & Wells, New York City, for defendants Merrill Lynch, Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc. and ACLI Intern. Commodity Services, Inc.; William R. Glendon, Susan A. Garcia, New York City, of counsel.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, for defendants ContiCommodity Services, Inc. and ContiCapital Management, Inc.; Mark H. Alcott, Richard P. Friedman, Richard A. Rosen, New York City, of counsel.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, New York City, for defendant Melvin Schnell; Michael H. Diamond, Erskine Henderson, New York City, of counsel.

Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, Ill. and Townley & Updike, New York City, for defendant Board of Trade of the City of Chicago.

Baer, Marks & Upham, New York City, for defendant Commodity Exchange Inc.


LASKER, District Judge.

The Board of Trade of the City of Chicago and the Commodity Exchange, Inc. ("the exchanges") move pursuant to Fed.R. Civ.Pr. 12(e) for an order directing Ronald Gordon to file a more definite statement of his complaint.

Initially, the exchanges' primary contention was that the complaint failed to specify which of the counts are directed at the exchanges. In response, Gordon indicated that the only counts under which he seeks money damages...

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