Legal Opinion
Coggins v. New England Patriots Football Club, Inc.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 15, 1990PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAbrams, J.
Following our opinion in Coggins v. New England Patriots Football Club, Inc., 397 Mass. 525 (1986) {Coggins I), the parties executed a stipulation of settlement. The settlement required the plaintiffs to dismiss their claims in exchange for $584,000. The money was placed in an interest-bearing account for the benefit of the plaintiffs to be held by Coggins’s counsel. 3
Thereafter, the plaintiffs filed a motion for fees and costs to be assessed against the defendants, as a matter of law, claiming as grounds that “[pjlaintiffs derivative count for waste of corporate assets brought against the…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Coggins v. New England Patriots Football Club, Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
- Shaw v. HardingMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1940
- Sagalyn v. Meekins, Packard & Wheat Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
- Commissioner of Insurance v. Massachusetts Accident Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1945
- Jon Sugarman v. Leonard Sugarman and Statler Industries, Inc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1986
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Michael Spielman v. Genzyme Corp. And Genzyme Development Corp.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2001
- Buster v. George W. Moore, Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2003
- Weld v. Glaxo Wellcome Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2001
- Crowley v. Communications for Hospitals, Inc.Massachusetts Appeals Court · 1991
- American Trucking Ass'n v. Secretary of AdministrationMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
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