Legal Opinion
Maldonado v. Flynn
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 15, 1979No. 136, Docket 78-7241PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:
In this stockholders’ derivative suit on behalf of Zapata Corporation (“Zapata” or “the Corporation”), a Delaware corporation, against a group of its past and present directors, the complaint alleges that the defendants violated various provisions of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. §§ 78a, et seq. (“the Act”) and applicable “common law” in their administration of the Corporation’s stock option plan for *791key employees of Zapata and its subsidiaries.1 Specifically, it is claimed that defendants (1) violated § 10(b) of the Act, 15 U.S.C. § 78j(b), and…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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- J. I. Case Co. v. BorakSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Santa Fe Industries, Inc. v. GreenSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
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3Cited by51 opinions
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