Legal Opinion
Jacobs v. Patent Enforcement Fund, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 27, 2000No. 99-9237PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:
I
This appeal involves a shareholder derivative action brought by (among other plaintiffs) Carl Johnston, Dixon Burden, and Dennis Tobin (“plaintiffs”), in their capacities as shareholders of Patent Enforcement Fund, Inc. (“PEF”), to recover damages from Harbor Research Corporation (“HRC”). Plaintiffs alleged that through a series of fraudulent business transactions (mostly fraudulent loans) among PEF, HRC, a third business organization called Valutron, and an individual named David Hill (“Hill”),2 monies rightfully belonging to PEF had been siphoned, through Valutron…
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