Legal Opinion
F. David Seinfeld, Leatrice Seinfeld, Frederick Seinfeld v. K. Frank Austen, Duane L. Burnham, H. Laurance Fuller
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 19, 1994No. 94-1507PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs below, individual shareholders of Abbott Laboratories, Inc. (“Abbott” or “the corporation”), appeal the denial of their motion to remand this case to state court and also appeal the district court’s subsequent dismissal of their complaint against Abbott’s Board of Directors for breach of fiduciary duty. We conclude that the district court lacked federal question jurisdiction to remove this case to federal court and therefore reverse with instructions to remand this action to state court.
I. Background
This is a consolidated shareholders derivative suit…
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