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GRUNENTHAL GmbH v. HOTZ

No. 80-590 AWT.

511 F.Supp. 582 (1981)

GRUNENTHAL GmbH, a corporation of the Federal Republic of Germany, Plaintiff, v. Paul HOTZ, Bozena Hotz, Balfour Zepler, Joseph Lowe, Richter Corporation, Ltd., a Bahamian corporation, Cadence Corporation, Ltd., a Bahamian corporation, Productos Gedeon Richter (America) S.A., a Mexico corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, C. D. California.

April 8, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Lofts, and Thomas G. Wood, Severson, Werson, Berke & Melchior, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff.

Robert P. Mallory, Steven J. Miller, Jeffrey S. Benice, Lawler, Felix & Hall, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Paul Hotz.

Rex S. Heinke, Gary L. Justice, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants Productos Gedeon Richter (America) S.A., Richter Corporation Limited, Cadence, Ltd., and Joseph Lowe.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

TASHIMA, District Judge.

We are required in this case to determine whether Judge Friendly's famous dictum that the anti-fraud provisions of the United States securities laws do not apply "when a German and a Japanese businessman met in New York for convenience, and the latter fraudulently induced the former to make purchases of Japanese securities on the Tokyo Stock Exchange,1 is, indeed, the law...

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