CREMIN v. MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH, INC.

No. 96 C 3733.

328 F.Supp.2d 865 (2004)

Mary Beth CREMIN, Nancy Thomas, Anne Kaspar, Sonia Ingram, Alice Moss, Linda Conti, Anne Marie Kearney and Angela Covo, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH, INC., Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

August 3, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas R. Meites, Michael M. Mulder, Shona B. Glink, Meites, Mulder, Burger & Mollica, Chicago, IL, Michael Rubin, Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Berzon & Rubin, San Francisco, CA, Mary Stowell, Linda Debra Friedman, Stowell & Friedman, Ltd., Chicago, IL, for Marybeth Cremin, Nancy Thomas, Anne Kaspar, Alice Moss, Linda Conti, Anne Marie Kearney, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Angelo Covo, plaintiffs.

Thomas R. Meites, Michael M. Mulder, Shona B. Glink, Meites, Mulder, Burger & Mollica, Chicago, IL, Michael Rubin, Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Berzon & Rubin, San Francisco, CA, Mary Stowell, Linda Debra Friedman, Stowell & Friedman, Ltd., Chicago, IL, Ares Demetrius Axiotis, Ares Demetrius Axiotis Esq., New York, NY, for Sonia Ingram, defendant.

Andrew J Schaffran, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, New York, NY, Jerold Sherwin Solovy, Catherine Patricia Wassberg, Howard Steven Suskin, Jenner & Block, LLC, Chicago, IL, James P. DeNardo, Kristin Dvorsky Tauras, McKenna, Storer, Rowe, White & Farrug, Chicago, IL, Mark S. Dichter, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia, PA, for Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., Joseph Gannotti.

Jonathan P. Tomes, Law Offices of Jonathan P. Tomes, Chicago, IL, Russell E. Brooks, Brian Kelly Kiser, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New York, NY, David L. Lee, Chicago, IL, for New York Stock Exchange.

James Stephen Poor, Robert L. Jackson, III, Seyfarth Shaw, Chicago, IL, Terri L. Reicher, National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., Washington, DC, for National Association of Securities Dealers, defendant.

Paul Haralson, Rasco Reininger Perez & Esquenazi, P.L., Coral Gables, FL, for Maureen Ayral, Nicole Pisklo, Cheryl Smith, Helen Salazar, claimants.

Ronald K Stitch, Westlake Village, CA, for Artemis Phillip, claimant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

CASTILLO, District Judge.

This lawsuit is a good example of the benefits of class action litigation. In 1996 Plaintiffs filed a class-action lawsuit challenging Defendant's alleged gender discrimination against its female Financial Consultants ("FCs"). See Cremin v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., 957 F.Supp. 1460 (N.D.Ill.1997) (granting certain defendants...

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