Legal Opinion
Charlotte Kokocinski v. Arthur D. Collins, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 1, 2017No. 15-3519PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
Charlotte Kokocinski brought a shareholder derivative action on behalf of Med-tronic, Inc., against current and former directors and officers of Medtronic, and against Medtronic as a nominal defendant. The district court 1 dismissed the action on the basis of a report by a special litigation committee, and we now affirm.
1. BACKGROUND
From roughly 2006 to 2008 Medtronic was the subject of a well-publicized controversy involving whistle-blower lawsuits, settlement and eorporate-compliance-and-governance agreements with federal agencies, and a congressional and media…
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