MAJESKI v. BALCOR ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.

Civ. A. No. 88-C-1079.

740 F.Supp. 563 (1990)

Ralph MAJESKI, Joseph Yach, Janice Waisman, Larry R. Peterson, Thomas Weil, Lee Aldridge, Randy Karpinsky, Kenneth Kulas, Robb S. Elliot and Raymond Harding, Plaintiffs, v. BALCOR ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY LTD, an Illinois corporation; Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc., f/k/a Shearson Lehman Brothers, Inc., and f/k/a Shearson Lehman/American Express, Inc., a Delaware corporation; The Balcor Company, an Illinois corporation; Balcor/American Express Inc., an Illinois corporation; Balcor Securities Company, an Illinois corporation, The American Express Company, a New York corporation; New World Pictures, Ltd., a California corporation, and Balcor Film Investors, an Illinois Limited Partnership, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Wisconsin.

June 22, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George P. Kersten, E. Campion Kersten, Bruce J. Landgraf, Kersten & McKinnon, Milwaukee, Wis. (Jerry H. Friedland, Galanis & Friedland, S.C., of counsel), for plaintiffs.

C. Elizabeth McCarty and Mary Ellen Hennessy, Katten Muchin & Zavis, Chicago, Ill., Ross A. Anderson, Frisch, Dudek, Ltd., Milwaukee, Wis., Robert J. Walner, Gen. Counsel, The Balcor Co., Skookie, Ill., for Balcor Entertainment Co., Ltd., The Balcor Co., Balcor/American Exp. Inc., Balcor Securities Co., New World Pictures, Ltd., and Balcor Film Investors.

H. Nicholas Berberian, Thomas M. Knepper, Jerry M. Santangelo, Neal Gerber Eisenberg & Lurie, Chicago, Ill., Terry E. Mitchell, Mitchell, Baxter & Zieger, S.C., Milwaukee, Wis., for Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc. and American Exp. Co.


DECISION AND ORDER

REYNOLDS, Senior District Judge.

BACKGROUND

On August 23, 1989, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ordered, pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C. § 1407, the case of Robert Eckstein, et al. v. Balcor Film Investors, et al. ("Eckstein") to be transferred from the Central District of California to this court for consolidated pretrial proceedings with Ralph Majeski, et al. v. Balcor Film Investors, et al...

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