Legal Opinion
Grimes v. Vitalink Communications Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 9, 1994No. 93-1268PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
COWEN, Circuit Judge.
This case presents the question whether a state court has the power to allow parties as part of a comprehensive court-approved settlement to release exclusive federal securities law claims arising from the same transaction or occurrence as the state law matters before it, even though the state court would not have jurisdiction to hear the federal claims in the first instance. A subsidiary issue presented is whether a non-resident owner of corporate stock who tendered his shares to the Delaware corporation in response to a proxy offer following a merger…
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