BOYD v. AWB LTD.

No. 07 Civ. 3007(GEL).

544 F.Supp.2d 236 (2008)

John BOYD, Veryl Switzer, Gillan Alexander, Rod Bradshaw, Wilburt Howard, Pat Dailey, Melvin Erb, and Dennis Brothers on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. AWB LIMITED and AWB (U.S.A.) Limited, Defendants.

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

March 25, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin D. Brown, Michael D. Hausfeld, Hilary K. Ratway, Seth R. Gassman, and Michael P. Lehmann, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, PLLC, Washington, DC, New York, NY, and San Francisco, CA, and L. Palmer Foret, Esq., Washington, DC, and Roderick E. Edmond and Craig T. Jones, Edmond & Jones, Atlanta, GA, and Bruce L. Simon and Esther Klisura, Pearson, Simon, Warshaw, Penny, LLP, San Francisco, CA, and Roberta D. Liebenberg and Donald L. Perelman, Fine, Kaplan & Black, RPC, Philadelphia, PA, for Plaintiffs John Boyd, Veryl Switzer, Gillan Alexander, Rod Bradshaw, Wilburt Howard, and Pat Dailey.

Gerald J. Rodos, Mark R. Rosen, Jeffrey B. Gittleman, Chad A. Carder, A. Arnold Gershon, and Gloria Kui, Barrack, Rodos & Bacine, Philadelphia, PA, and New York, NY, and Anthony J. Bolognese and Joshua H. Grabar, Bolognese & Associates, LLC, Philadelphia, PA, for Plaintiff Melvin Erb.

Steven A. Asher and Mindee J. Rueben, Weinstein, Kitchenoff & Asher LLC, Philadelphia, PA, and W. Joseph Bruckner, Richard A. Lockridge, and Lisa M. Pollard, Lockridge, Grindal, Nauen PLLP, Minneapolis, MN, and Joseph C. Kohn, Kohn, Swift & Graf, PC, Philadelphia, PA, and Indik & McNamara, PC, Philadelphia, PA, for Plaintiff Dennis Brothers.

Robert H. Baron and Timothy G. Cameron, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants AWB Limited and AWB (U.S.A.) Limited.


OPINION AND ORDER

GERARD E. LYNCH, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, who are wheat farmers in the United States, bring this putative class action alleging that defendants AWB Limited and AWB (U.S.A.) Limited (collectively, "AWB"),1 who exported Australiangrown wheat to Iraq under the United Nations Oil for Food Program, participated in a bribery and money laundering conspiracy "to achieve, maintain, and exploit a monopoly on wheat...

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