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012782P.pdf   07/15/2002  Kazimierz Dudek  v.  Prudential
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  01-2782
   Northern District of Iowa   
   Civil case - Securities law. Tax-deferred annuities were securities 
   covered by the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 
   1998, and plaintiffs' claims concerning the marketing of the 
   annuities were in substance based on material misrepresentations 
   and non-disclosures in the purchase or sale of a covered security; 
   as a result, their state law claims were preempted by the Act.