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Silver price-fixing lawsuits consolidated in Manhattan federal court

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Brendan Pierson
Reuters
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

NEW YORK -- Litigation alleging that Deutsche Bank, Bank of Nova Scotia, and HSBC illegally fixed the price of silver has been centralized in Manhattan federal court.

Lawsuits filed by investors since July over the alleged price-fixing were consolidated on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, following an order issued last Thursday by the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, a special body of federal judges that decides when and where to consolidate related lawsuits.

The panel ruled that the cases should be handled by U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan, who is already overseeing similar litigation over alleged gold price-fixing.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/14/antitrust-silver-idUSL2N0S91QO...



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