CATHOLIC ORDER OF FORESTERS v. U.S. BANCORP PIPER JAFFRAY, INC.

No. C 03-0081-MWB.

337 F.Supp.2d 1148 (2004)

CATHOLIC ORDER OF FORESTERS; Federated Life Insurance Co.; Homesteaders Life Co.; Mennonite Mutual Aid Assoc.; and United Life Insurance Co., Plaintiffs, v. U.S. BANCORP PIPER JAFFRAY, INC.; Timothy Oswald; Michael Cebuhar; Best & Flanagan, L.L.P.; Morris Knopf; Brick, Gentry, Bowers, Swartz, Stoltze, Schuling & Levis, P.C.; Amy Beattie; Lyle Fairs; Richard Woodside; Larry Crosser; and Mark Shields, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Iowa, Cedar Rapids Division.

September 27, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kimberly Holst Blankenship, Timothy J. Hill, William T. McCartan, Bradley & Riley, Cedar Rapids, IA, for Plaintiffs.

Leonard T. Strand, Simmons Perrine Albright Ellwood, Cedar Rapids, IA, Nathan P. Brenna, Steven M. Phillips, Anthony Ostlund & Baer, P.A., Lewis A. Remele, Jr., Mark R. Whitmore, Robin Ann Williams, Bassford Remele, PA, Minneapolis, MN, Glenn L. Smith, Finley Alt Smith Scharnberg Craig Hilmes & Gaffney, PC, Des Moines, IA, Tamara K. Hackmann, Meyer Capel, Champaign, IL, Thomas A. Finley, Finley Alt Smith Scharnberg Craig Hilmes & Gaffney, PC, Des Moines, IA, Thomas J. Joesen, Finley, Alt, Smith, Scharnberg, Craig, Hilmes & Gaffney, PC, Lawrence P. McLellan, Sullivan & Ward, PC, Des Moines, IA, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER REGARDING THE MOTION TO DISMISS BY THE "CRESTLAND DEFENDANTS"

BENNETT, Chief Judge.

                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

   I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................1151

   II. LEGAL ANALYSIS .........................................................1153
     A. Improper Venue ....

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