Item 77E - Deutsche Investment Trust (formerly
DWS Investment Trust)
On December 7, 2010, Deutsche Investment Trust
(formerly DWS Investment Trust) (the "Trust") was
named as a defendant in the First Amended
Complaint filed by the Official Committee of
Unsecured Creditors in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court
for the District of Delaware in the lawsuit styled
Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of
Tribune Company, et al., v. Fitzsimons et al. (the
"Lawsuit").  The Lawsuit arises out of a leveraged
buyout transaction ("LBO") in 2007 by which loans
were made to the Tribune Company to fund the
LBO and shares of the Tribune Company held by
shareholders were tendered for or were converted to
a right to receive cash.  Following the completion of
the LBO in 2007, the Tribune Company filed for
bankruptcy.  The Lawsuit seeks to recover all
payments made to the shareholders in the LBO.
The Lawsuit has been consolidated in a multi-
district litigation in the United States District Court
for the Southern District of New York, case no. 12-
MC-2296.  At the outset of the Lawsuit, the Court
issued a scheduling order which stayed all
substantive proceedings in the Lawsuit until after
the decision on motions to dismiss based on certain
defenses common to the defendants filed in related
cases.  On September 23, 2013, the District Court
entered an order granting the defendants' motion to
dismiss in those related cases due to the pendency
of the Lawsuit seeking recoveries on similar
grounds, and the plaintiffs in the related cases have
appealed that order. Accordingly, the Lawsuit will
continue to seek recovery of all amounts that the
Trust received on a theory of intentional fraudulent
conveyance.  On November 21, 2013, the District
Court entered Master Case Order No. 4 ("MCO 4")
setting forth the procedures to govern the Lawsuit
and effectively lifting the above-referenced stay.
Among other things, MCO 4 requires the parties to
present proposals for a structure to govern the
upcoming pre-answer motions to dismiss stage of
the Lawsuit.  On April 25, 2014, the District Court
entered an order governing the upcoming stage of
the Lawsuit, which directed Ropes & Gray, as
Liaison Counsel to the Shareholder Defendants, to
file a global motion to dismiss (the "Global Motion
to Dismiss") the Lawsuit on behalf of all
shareholder defendants named in Exhibit A to the
current Fifth Amended Complaint (including the
Trust).  Briefing of the Global Motion to Dismiss
has concluded, and the District Court has not yet
scheduled a date for oral argument.  The District
Court has also deferred all other proposed motions
to dismiss the Lawsuit, if necessary, until a later
date to be determined. Management is currently
assessing the Lawsuit and has not yet determined
the effect, if any, on any series of the Trust.
Deutsche S&P 500 Index Fund, the only fund in the
Trust that was the beneficial holder of shares of the
Tribune Company, has been reorganized into
Deutsche Institutional Funds and none of the
Trust's current funds have exposure in the litigation.




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