Legal Opinion

Kaonohi Ohana, Ltd. v. Sutherland (In re Kaonohi Ohana, Ltd.)

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided May 5, 1989No. Nos. 87-2742, 87-1892 and 87-2680PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

JAMES R. BROWNING, Circuit Judge:

These consolidated appeals arise out of a complex web of litigation pitting Nancy Sutherland and assignees against Sylvester Stallone and Kaonohi Ohana, Ltd., a creditor’s corporation that sold the same parcel of Hawaiian beach front property first to Sutherland, then to Stallone.

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After agreeing to sell 5.5 acres of shoreline property on the island of Kauai to Sutherland, Kaonohi accepted a higher offer from Stallone on the theory that the prior agreement with Sutherland was not binding because not approved by three quarters of Kaonohi’s stockholders, as…

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