United States Seventh Circuit

On remand from the Supreme Court in a series of investor lawsuits against mutual funds alleging that the funds are liable for damages to the investors because they were vulnerable to the exploitation of arbitrageurs, one series of cases is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction, another series is remanded to state court, and one case is dismissed as an unauthorized attempt to engineer a partial removal of a single case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/16/2006
• Published 10/16/2006

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, RIPPLE, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• George A. Zelcs, Korein Tillery, Chicago, IL, Robert L. King, Korein Tillery, St. Louis, MO, Sanford Svetcov, Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Rebecca R. Jackson, Bryan Cave, St. Louis, MO, Matthew R. Kipp, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Chicago, IL, Robert H. Shultz, Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, Edwardsville, John W. Rotunno, Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, Chicago, IL, Dale Harris, Davis Graham & Stubbs, Denver, CO, Mark A. Perry, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Washington, DC, Jon A. Santangelo, Stinson, Morrison & Hecker, St. Louis, MO, Meagher & Flom, Kenneth E. Rechtoris, Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, Chicago, IL, Charles F. Smith, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Chicago, IL, Robert Y. Sperling, Winston & Strawn, Chicago, IL, Steven B. Feirson, Dechert, Philadelphia, PA, Gordon R. Broom, Edwardsville, IL, John D. Donovan, Jr., Ropes & Gray, Boston, MA, Ann C. Barron, Bryan Cave, St. Louis, MO, Mark A. Rabinowitz, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, Chicago, IL, David E. Foropp, Winston & Strawn, Chicago, IL, Frank N. Gundlach, Armstrong Teasdale, St. Louis, MO, Daniel A. Pollack, Pollack & Kamnisky, New York, NY, John W. Rotunno, Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, Chicago, IL, Thomas B. Smith, Ropes & Gray, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellants.