KEACH v. U.S. TRUST CO. N.A.

No. 01-1168.

313 F.Supp.2d 818 (2004)

Debra KEACH and Patricia Sage, Plaintiff, v. U.S. TRUST COMPANY, N.A., f/k/a/ U.S. Trust Company of California, N.A., Ellen D. Foster, as Executrix of the Estate of Thomas S. Foster and as Co-Trustee of the Thomas S. Foster Trust executed on April 14, 1994, the Northern Trust Company, an Illinois Corporation, as Co-Trustee of the Thomas S. Foster Trust executed on April 14, 1994, Melvin R. Regal, individually, as trustee or agent of the Steven Jay Regal Trust, as trustee or agent of the Judi Lynn Regal Trust, and as trustee or agent of the John E. Regal Trust, A. Robert Pellegrino, Valuemetrics, Inc., Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin, Inc., Robert A. Ostertag, Jr., Terry P. Cole, Alan R. Dix, Jon D. Elletson, Stephen P. Bartley, Lyle T. Dickes, James N. Freid, Dale Fujimoto, William J. Gehring, Henry R. Gregory II, John F. Halpin, Richard S. Hodgson, James H. Kyle, John Lappegaard, Gregory K. McAllister, George McKittrick, Michael F. Norbutas, Clayton Patino, Jerry L. Rathmann, Frederick J. Stuber, W. Thomas Stumb, Mark Swedlund, Leo A. Vandervlugt, Robert J. Wilson, Bruce B. Wright, and Ashley Anne Foster, as trustee or agent of the Ashley Anne Foster Irrevocable Trust, Defendant.

United States District Court, C.D. Illinois.

February 12, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dean B. Rhoads, Robert Rhode, Edward Sutkowski, Steven Oates, Sean Anderson, Sutkowski & Rhoads, Peoria, IL, for Plaintiffs Debra Keach and Patricia Sage.

Timothy Bertschy, Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, Peoria, IL, Robert Eccles, Shannon M. Barrett, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendant U.S. Trust Company, NA, fka U.S. Trust Company of California.

Richard J. Pautler, Jennifer Baetje, Thompson & Coburn, St. Louis, MO, for Defendants Robert A. Ostertag, Jr., Terry P. Cole, Alan R. Dix, Jon Elletson, A. Robert Pellegrino.

James Bailey, Paul Ondrasik, Jr., Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, DC, Roy Davis, David Lubben, Davis & Campbell LLC, Peoria, IL, for Defendants Valuemetrics, Inc.

Mark Casciari, Ian Hugh Morrison, Sari M. Alamuddin, Seyfarth Shaw, Chicago, IL, for Defendant Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin, Inc.

Charles Roth, James Springer, Kavanagh Scully Sudow White & Frederick, Peoria, IL, for Defendants Stephen P. Bartley, Dale Fujimoto.

Stephen Gay, Jeffrey Alan Ryva, Husch & Eppenberger LLC, Peoria, IL, for Defendant Lyle Dickes.

Jeffrey Rock, Hasselberg Rock Bell & Kuppler, Peoria, IL, for Defendants James Freid, Richard Hodgson.

John Elias, Robert Riffle, Cynthia Elias, Elias Meginnes Riffle & Seghetti, Peoria, IL, for Defendant William Gehring, Henry Gregory, II, John F. Halpin, James Kyle, John Lappegaard, George McKittrick, Clayton Patino, Jerry Rathmann, W. Thomas Stumb, Mark Swedlund, Leo Vanderlugt, Robert Wilson, Bruce Wright.

Dean Essig, Washington, IL, for Defendant Gregory McAllister.

Charles Roth, James Springer, Joseph Sudow, Kavanagh Scully Sudow White & Frederick, Peoria, IL, for Defendants Michael Norbutas, Frederick Stuber, and for Defendant Ashley Anne Foster, as trustee or agent of the Ashley Anne Foster Irrevocable Trust, and Melvyn R. Regal, individually, as trustee or agent of the Steven Jay Regal Trust, as trustee or agent of the Judi Lynn Regal Trust, and as trustee or agent of the John E. Regal Trust.


ORDER

MIHM, District Judge.

I. SUMMARY OF FINDINGS (Pages 1-5)

In 1995, Foster & Gallagher, Inc. ("F & G") was enjoying multiple years of record profits, and the management forecast projected additional years of record profit into the future. On December 20, 1995, the F & G Employee Stock Ownership Plan ("ESOP"), with U.S. Trust Co. ("U.S. Trust") as its trustee, purchased 3,589,743 shares of F & G stock from Thomas...

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