Abstract. We prove, assuming the generalized Riemann hypothesis for imaginary quadratic fields, the following special case of a conjecture of Oort, concerning Zarsiski closures of sets of CM points in Shimura varieties. Let X be an irreducible algebraic curve in C 2 , containing infinitely many points of which both coordinates are j-invariants of CM elliptic curves. Suppose that both projections from X to C are not constant. Then there is an integer m 1 such that X is the image, under the usual map, of the modular curve Y0m. The proof uses some number theory and some topological arguments.Mathematics Subject Classifications (1991): 11F32, 11G15, 14K22, 14G35.