MINPECO, S.A. v. CONTICOMMODITY SERVICES, INC.

No. 81 Civ. 7619(MEL).

558 F.Supp. 1348 (1983)

MINPECO, S.A., Plaintiff, v. CONTICOMMODITY SERVICES, INC., ContiCapital Management, Inc., ContiCapital Limited, Norton Waltuch, Nelson Bunker Hunt, Lamar Hunt, William Herbert Hunt, International Metals Investment Co., Ltd., Sheik Mohammed Aboud Al-Amoudi, Sheik Ali Bin Mussalem, Naji Robert Nahas, Gilian Financial, ACLI International Commodity Services, Inc., Banque Populaire Suisse, Advicorp Advisory and Financial Corporation, S.A., Mahmoud Fustok, Faisal Bin Abdullah, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., Bache Halsey Stuart Shields, Inc., E.F. Hutton & Company, Inc., Commodity Exchange, Inc., and the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Defendants.

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

March 21, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cole & Corette, P.C., Washington, D.C., for plaintiff; Theodore Sonde, John E. Corette, III, D. McCarty Thornton, Deborah M. House, Susan Bierman, Washington, D.C., Grand & Ostrow, Paul R. Grand, New York City, of counsel.

Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, New York City, for defendant E.F. Hutton & Company, Inc.; Thomas Curnin, Thoms J. Kavaler, Alan B. Loughnan, Ruth D. MacNaughton, Edward R. Wiest, New York City, of counsel.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, for defendants ContiCommodity Services, Inc., ContiCapital Management, Inc., ContiCapital Ltd. and Norton Waltuch; Richard Rosen, Mark H. Alcott, Diane Englander, Peter W. Schneider, New York City, of counsel.

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

Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, Arnold & Porter, New York City, for defendant Mahmoud Fustok; Eliot Lauer, Herbert Stoller, Lorraine C. Parker, New York City, Alex Bennett, Washington, D.C., of counsel.

Gilbert, Segall & Young, New York City, for defendant Banque Populaire Suisse.

Townley & Updike, New York City, and Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, Ill., for defendant The Chicago Board of Trade; James K. Leader, James E. Tyrell, Holly S. Stein, New York City, John Stassen, John E. Angle, Frederick L. White, Scott E. Early, T. Webster Brenner, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

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

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

Baer, Marks & Upham, New York City, for defendant Commodity Exchange, Inc.; Barry Mandel, Mark A. Buckstein, Stephen F. Selig, Eugene R. Scheiman, Thomas E. Albright, William A. Brandt, Jr., Joshua B. Parker, New York City, of counsel.

Perito, Duerk, Carlson & Pinco, P.C., Washington, D.C., for defendant Intern. Metals Inv. Co., Ltd.; Paul L. Perito, John P. Wintrol, Washington, D.C., of counsel.


LASKER, District Judge.

The background facts of this case are reviewed at 552 F.Supp. 332 (S.D.N.Y.1982), familiarity with which is assumed. Defendants move pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.Pr. 12(b)(6) to dismiss the ninth claim which alleges that the acts of the defendants

"constitute a pattern ... of racketeering activity, to wit, two or more acts, within ten years, of unlawful use of the United States Postal Service mail system...

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