CHESEMORE v. FENKELL

Nos. 14-3181, 14-3215 & 15-3740.

829 F.3d 803 (2016)

Carol CHESEMORE, et al., on behalf of themselves, individually, and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees/Cross-Appellants, v. David B. FENKELL, Defendant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. Alliance Holdings, Inc., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 21, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Joseph Barton , Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Washington, DC, Andrew W. Erlandson , Hurley, Burish & Stanton, S.C., Madison, WI, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

David R. Johanson , Napa, CA, Douglas Andrew Rubel , Cary, NC, Hawkins, Parnell, Thackston & Young, for Defendant-Appellant.

Charles C. Jackson , James P. Looby , Erin E. McAdams , Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees Alliance Holdings, Inc., AH Transition Corporation, and A.H.I., INC.

Lars Golumbic , Groom Law Group, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellee Alliance Holdings, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

Charles Benno Wolf , Patrick W. Spangler , Vedder Price P.C., Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees Pamela Klute, James Mastrangelo, and Jeffrey A. Seefeldt.

Before KANNE and SYKES, Circuit Judges, and ELLIS, District Judge.


Trachte Building Systems, Inc., a Wisconsin manufacturer, established an employee stock ownership plan ("ESOP") in the mid-1980s when ESOPs were a popular employee-benefits instrument. In the late 1990s, David Fenkell and Alliance Holdings, Inc., a company he founded and controlled, developed a niche specialty in buying and...

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