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

No. 181, Docket 87-6108.

832 F.2d 739 (1987)

MINPECO S.A., Ronald Gordon, Philip and Dorothy Korwek, Marty Finkelstein, William L. Cohn and James G. Williams, Plaintiffs, 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, Gilion Financial, Inc., ACLI International Commodity Services, Inc., Banque Populaire Suisse, Advicorp Advisory and Financial Corporation S.A., Mahmoud Fustok, Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Inc., Bache Halsey Stuart Shields, Inc., E.F. Hutton & Company, Inc., Commodity Exchange, Inc., the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Continental Grain Company, Inc., Walter Goldschmidt, Faisal Ben Abdullah, Al Saoud, Bache Group, Inc., (Prudential Bache Securities Inc.), Melvin Schnell, Litardex Traders, S.A. John Does Nos. 1 Through 15, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette ACLI Futures Inc., f/k/a ACLI International Commodity Services, Inc., Defendants. Nelson Bunker HUNT, William Herbert Hunt, Lamar Hunt, and Banque Populaire Suisse, Defendants-Appellees, v. COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION, Intervenor-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 2, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles D. Stodghill, Commodity Futures Trading Com'n, Washington, D.C. (Marshall E. Hanbury, Virginia F. Crisman, Helen G. Blechman, Steven H. Meyer, Robert F. Klein, Commodity Futures Trading Com'n, of counsel), for intervenor-appellant.

Maris Veidemanis, New York City (Paul J. Curran, Michael Malina, Aaron Rubinstein, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, New York City, Robert E. Wolin, Gardere & Wynne, Dallas, Tex., of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before PRATT and MAHONEY, Circuit Judges, and BRIGHT, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, sitting by designation.


GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:

This case represents merely a single plot line in an ongoing soap opera, "As The Hunts Turn". Its central characters are the three brothers Hunt, Nelson Bunker, William Herbert, and Lamar. The overall drama is even now being played out in far-flung courts and administrative hearing rooms, and pits the Hunts against various adversaries determined to take them to task for events in 1979 and 1980, when the Hunts allegedly attempted to...

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