11 Cited authorities

  1. Chaveriat v. Williams Pipe Line Co.

    11 F.3d 1420 (7th Cir. 1993)   Cited 208 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Upholding denial of leave to amend one month after the close of discovery
  2. Voices for Choices v. Illinois Bell Tel. Co.

    339 F.3d 542 (7th Cir. 2003)   Cited 38 times
    Denying leave to file proposed amicus briefs which covers the same ground and "essentially duplicates" a party brief
  3. Simon Wrecking Co. v. AIU Insurance

    541 F. Supp. 2d 714 (E.D. Pa. 2008)   Cited 18 times
    Looking to representations made to Pennsylvania regulators in applying Commonwealth's insurance law
  4. Zapata Gulf Marine v. P.R. Maritime

    731 F. Supp. 747 (E.D. La. 1990)   Cited 13 times
    Holding that judicial estoppel applied to proceedings before the Interstate Commerce Commission
  5. Craig v. Refco, Inc.

    816 F.2d 347 (7th Cir. 1987)   Cited 5 times

    No. 86-1448. Argued January 9, 1987. Decided April 15, 1987. Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied May 15, 1987. Marshall Patner, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants. Susan R. Lichtenstein, Schiff, Hardin Waite, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Before CUMMINGS and FLAUM, Circuit Judges, and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge. PER CURIAM. Investors in commodities futures contracts must keep "margin" funds

  6. Craig v. Refco, Inc.

    624 F. Supp. 944 (N.D. Ill. 1985)   Cited 5 times
    Reasoning that retention by the FCM of interest earned on margin money is appropriate because the FCM bears the risk of any decline in the value of an obligation purchased with a customer's margin funds
  7. Section 1 - Short title

    7 U.S.C. § 1   Cited 944 times   34 Legal Analyses
    Defining an FCM as, among other things and in pertinent part, an entity that is "engaged in soliciting or in accepting orders for the purchase or sale of a commodity for future delivery" or is registered as an FCM
  8. Section 1a - Definitions

    7 U.S.C. § 1a   Cited 323 times   63 Legal Analyses
    Defining "excluded commodity" under Commodity Exchange Act
  9. Section 6 - Regulation of futures trading and foreign transactions

    7 U.S.C. § 6   Cited 264 times   12 Legal Analyses
    Prohibiting futures trades outside contract markets
  10. Section 6d - Dealing by unregistered futures commission merchants or introducing brokers prohibited; duties in handling customer receipts; conflict-of-interest systems and procedures; Chief Compliance Officer; rules to avoid duplicative regulations; swap requirements; portfolio margining accounts

    7 U.S.C. § 6d   Cited 124 times   13 Legal Analyses
    Prohibiting depository institutions from treating customer assets “as belonging to the depositing futures commission merchant or any person other than the customers of such futures commission merchant”
  11. Section 1.20 - Futures customer funds to be segregated and separately accounted for

    17 C.F.R. § 1.20   Cited 17 times
    Requiring the FCM to keep the customer's money in a segregated account and to account for each customer's monies