Legal Opinion
Berman v. Narragansett Racing Ass'n
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 31, 1969No. Nos. 7245-7247PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McENTEE, Circuit Judge.
These consolidated appeals are from dismissals of three class actions brought under Fed.R.Civ.P. 23 by plaintiffs as representatives of a class comprised of licensed owners of horses that have won purses at the defendants’ race tracks.1 Two of the suits were commenced in the district court in Rhode Island and the third in the district of New Hampshire. In all three the gravamen of the complaint is that for over three decades the defendants had failed to pay to the plaintiff pursewinners certain monies alleged to be theirs under annual purse agreements, and that this…
2Cases cited38 opinions
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- Dolgow v. AndersonDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1968
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