BERNSTEIN v. LIND-WALDOCK & CO.

No. 83-2420.

738 F.2d 179 (1984)

Thomas BERNSTEIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LIND-WALDOCK & COMPANY and Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 18, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth H. Denberg, Siegel, Denberg, Vanasco, Shukovsky, Moses & Schoenstadt, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Jeffrey J. Keck, Marcus, Esses, Ham & Assoc., Daniel A. Clune, Freeman, Rothe, Freeman & Salzman, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before PELL, BAUER and POSNER, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This action by a former member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Bernstein, against the Exchange and one of its clearing members, Lind-Waldock, raises intricate questions of federal jurisdiction, involving the timeliness of the appeal, the removability of the action, and the doctrine of pendent-party jurisdiction, as well as substantive issues under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and the Commodity Exchange Act.

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