Douglas J. MICHELSON, Plaintiff,
v.
MERRILL LYNCH PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH, INC., Nelson Bunker Hunt, William Herbert Hunt, Douglas Herbert Hunt, Lamar Hunt, International Metals Investment Co. Ltd., John J. Conheeny, Conti-Commodity Services Inc., Conti-Capital Management Inc., Conti-Capital Ltd., Norton Waltuch, Gilian Financial, ACLI International Commodity Services, Inc., Bache Halsey Stuart Shield Inc., Shiek Mohammed Aboud Al Amoudi, Shiek Ali Bin Mussalem, Mahmoud Fustok, Prince Faisal Bin Abdullah, Naji Robert Nahas, Banque Populaire Suisse, Advicorp Advisory and Financial Corporation S.A., Placid Oil Company, Commodity Exchange, Inc., the Chicago Board of Trade, Defendants.
United States District Court, S.D. New York.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
October 2, 1985.
October 2, 1985.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Douglas J. Michelson, pro se.
Rogers & Wells, New York City, for defendants Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. and John J. Conheeney; William R. Glendon, Guy C. Quinlan, Susan A. Garcia, James M. Lane, Peter L. Thoren, New York City, of counsel.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, for ContiCommodity Services Inc., ContiCapital Management, Inc., ContiCapital, Ltd., Richard A. Rosen, New York City, of counsel.
Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, New York City, for defendant Norton Waltuch; Steven J. Glassman, New York City, of counsel.
Townley & Updike, New York City, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Bd. of Trade of the City of Chicago; James K. Leader, New York City, and John E. Angle, Garrett B. Johnson, T. Webster Brenner, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.
Baer, Marks & Upham, New York City, for defendant Commodity Exchange, Inc.; Barry J. Mandel, Thomas E. Albright, Kristine M. Reddington, New York City, of counsel.
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, New York City, for defendant Mahmoud Fustok; Herbert Stoller, New York City, of counsel.
Gilbert, Segall & Young, New York City, and Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C., for defendant Banque Populaire Suisse.
Shank, Irwin, Conant & Williamson, Dallas, Tex., John R. Bartels, Jr., White Plains, N.Y., for defendants Nelson Bunker Hunt, William Herbert Hunt, Douglas Herbert Hunt, Lamar Hunt and Placid Oil Co.; Robert Everett Wolin, Dallas, Tex., of counsel.
Morrison, Cohen & Singer, P.C., and Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Heine & Underberg, New York City, for defendant Intern. Metals Inv. Co., Ltd.
Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, for Prudential-Bache Sec., Inc. (formerly known as Bache Halsey Stuart Shields Inc.).
United States District Court, S.D. New York.
LASKER, District Judge.
Douglas J. Michelson is a resident of New Mexico and a rare metals trader who suffered heavy financial losses when the price of silver increased dramatically in the latter half of 1979 and in early 1980. Michelson, who appears pro se, has filed a sixty-one page complaint asserting thirty-six causes of action against twenty-four named defendants1 contending that they participated in a conspiracy in 1979-80...
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