Legal Opinion
Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 95,923 Nottingham Partners v. Trans-Lux Corporation
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 7, 1991No. 90-1859PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Nottingham Partners and Deerfield Partners, plaintiffs below, invoking federal question jurisdiction, 28 U.S.C. § 1331, brought suit for securities law violations allegedly committed by Trans-Lux Corporation and its directors. After a parade of intervening events, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled that the defendants were entitled to summary judgment because the plaintiffs’ claims were extinguished at the time a shareholders’ class action was resolved in the Delaware courts. Sparing little in the way of impassioned rhetoric,…
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