BRILL v. BURLINGTON NORTHERN, INC.

Civ. A. No. 83-345-JLL.

590 F.Supp. 893 (1984)

Muriel BRILL, Plaintiff, v. BURLINGTON NORTHERN, INC., R-H Holdings Corporation, the El Paso Company, Travis Herbert Petty, William V. Holik, Jr., R.S. Morris, Howard Boyd, Willard F. Rockwell, Jr., W.D. Noel, L. Emory Katzenbach, Ben F. Love, Kenneth Rush, J.R. Hubbard and Shearson/American Express Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

July 13, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas D. Whittington, Jr. of Whittington & Aulgur, Wilmington, Del., and Mark I. Fishman, New York City, of counsel, for plaintiff.

A. Gilchrist Sparks, III and Lawrence A. Hamermesh of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, Del., Marc P. Cherno of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, New York City, of counsel, for defendants Burlington Northern, Inc. and R-H Holdings Corp.

Robert K. Payson of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, Del., Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander, New York City, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York City, of counsel, for defendants The El Paso Co. and the El Paso Directors.

R. Franklin Balotti and Donald A. Bussard of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Del., Wilkie, Farr & Gallagher, New York City, of counsel, for defendants Shearson/American Exp., Inc.


OPINION

LATCHUM, Senior District Judge.

On June 27, 1983, this Court, in an action arising out of the same facts as this case, and brought on behalf of the same class of shareholders which this plaintiff purports to represent, dismissed the complaint which alleged violations under section 14(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. § 78n(e) (1976). Schreiber v. Burlington Northern, Inc., 568 F.Supp. 197

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