Legal Opinion
Gardner & Florence Call Cowles Foundation v. Empire Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 12, 1985No. 468, Docket 84-7674PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WINTER, Circuit Judge:
This appeal is from Judge Knapp’s order dismissing the complaint after the instant action had been removed from the New York state courts. The district court held that plaintiffs, holders of convertible debentures issued by a company that had recently gone private in a leveraged buyout, had failed to state a claim for relief with regard to losses in the value of their conversion rights. Gardner and Florence Call Cowles Foundation v. Empire, Inc., 589 F.Supp. 669 (S.D.N.Y.1984). We are obliged to vacate the judgment and remand to the district court with instructions to…
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