United States Seventh Circuit

In a suit by a partner in a remote stock trading company alleging fraud against an investor in his former partners' new enterprise, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where plaintiff's complaint did not adequately allege with the required specificity a fraud or other misbehavior on the part of defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/20/2007
• Published 02/20/2007

Judges

• WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, WOOD, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael Kanovitz (argued), Loevy & Loevy, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Melanie E. Walker, Sidley Austin, Chicago, IL, Richard D. Bernstein (argued), Sidley Austin, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellee.