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Cahill Wins Dismissals in Eleven Mortgage-Backed Securities Litigations for The McGraw-Hill Companies and its Standard & Poor’s Subsidiary

Date: 06/03/10

Cahill is representing The McGraw-Hill Companies and its Standard & Poor's ("S&P") subsidiary in litigations around the United States arising from S&P's rating of securities backed by subprime mortgages. To date,  Cahill litigators have won dismissals of all claims against the Company in eleven such litigations.  The litigations included:

  • In re Lehman Brothers Securities and ERISA Litigation (S.D.N.Y.)
  • New Jersey Carpenters Vacation Fund et al. v. Royal Bank of Scotland Group, PLC et al. (S.D.N.Y.)
  • Tsereteli v. Residential Asset Securitization Trust (S.D.N.Y.)
  • In re IndyMac Mortgage-Backed Securities Litigation (S.D.N.Y.)
  • Iron Workers Local No. 25 Pension Fund v. Credit-Based Asset Servicing & Securitization LLC (S.D.N.Y.)
  • In re Wells Fargo Mortgage-Backed Certificates Litigation (N.D. Cal.)
  • Teamsters Allied Benefit Funds v. Harold McGraw, III, et al. (S.D.N.Y.)
  • Patrick Gearren v. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (S.D.N.Y.)
  • Harvey Sullivan v. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (S.D.N.Y.)
  • Oddo Asset Management v. Barclays Bank PLC, et al. (N.Y. Sup.)
  • Blomquist v. Washington Mutual, et al. (N.D. Cal.)