CORTEC INDUSTRIES, INC. v. SUM HOLDING L.P.

No. 90 Civ. 0165 (CSH).

839 F.Supp. 1021 (1993)

CORTEC INDUSTRIES, INC. and Cortec Holdings, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. SUM HOLDING L.P., Dubin Clark & Company, Inc., Dubin Clark Capital Corp., Ronald N. Dubin, J. Thomas Clark, Jean-Pierre Dammann, Norman J. Yerke, Michael Canipe, Bowles Hollowell Conner & Co., and Ernst & Young, Defendants, v. LEACH McMICKING & CO. LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, Leach McMicking & Co., Howard Leach, Lawrence Chamberlain, Martha Fray and Henry McMicking, Additional Counterclaim Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

December 10, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sonnenshein Nath & Rosenthal, New York City (Michael H. Barr, Gregory S. Karawan, of counsel), for plaintiffs and additional counterclaim defendants.

Bingham Dana & Gould, Boston, MA (Daniel L. Goldberg, Victor H. Polk, Jr., Jeffrey Marlin, of counsel), for defendants Ronald Dubin, J. Thomas Clark, Jean-Pierre Dammann, Sum Holding, L.P., Dubin Clark & Co., Inc., Dubin Clark Capital Corp., Norman J. Yerke and Michael Canipe.

Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A., Charlotte, NC (Mark W. Merritt, Richard B. Whisnant, of counsel), Richards Spears Kibbe & Orbe, New York City (Lee S. Richards, of counsel), for defendant Bowles Hollowell Conner & Co.

Alan A. Harley, Asst. Gen. Counsel, New York City (John Matson, Bruce M. Cormier, Melanie T. Morris, of counsel), for defendant Ernst & Young.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HAIGHT, District Judge:

In this securities fraud case with pendent state and common law claims, plaintiffs and certain defendants move the Court for an order approving a settlement which inter alia would bar claims by the nonsettling defendant against the settling defendants. The nonsettling defendant objects to the proposed settlement, including the bar order, as unfair.

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