Legal Opinion
Ashmore v. CGI Group, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 21, 2017No. Docket 16-1758-cvPublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judge:
Benjamin Ashmore appeals from the order of the district court (Analisa Torres, J.) dismissing him as the plaintiff in this Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower action and allowing Barbara A. Edwards, the Trustee of his bankruptcy estate (“Trustee”), to be substituted as the plaintiff. Ashmore argues that he has standing to prosecute the whistleblower action because, contrary to the district court’s ruling, the Trustee abandoned the lawsuit to Ashmore. See 11 U.S.C. § 554(c). Because the district court’s dismissal of the case as to Ashmore and the substitution of the…
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