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Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 93,592 Paulette Papilsky v. Alvin H. Berndt, and Carl W. Knobloch

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided December 18, 1972No. 759, Docket 72-1052PublishedCited by 84 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:

The essential issue on this appeal is whether dismissal of a stockholder’s derivative suit, without notice to nonparty stockholders, under Fed.R.Civ.P. 37(b) (2) (C), for failure to answer interrogatories, operates as a bar to an identical cause of action asserted by another stockholder in a subsequent derivative suit.

Plaintiff Paulette Papilsky is a shareholder of defendant Affiliated Fund, Inc. and brought this action derivatively on behalf of Affiliated, a diversified open-end investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940. Defendant Lord,…

2Cases cited37 opinions

  1. Hansberry v. LeeSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
  2. Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. v. RogersSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
  3. Koster v. (American) Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1947
  4. Ross v. BernhardSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  5. Costello v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1961

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3Cited by84 opinions

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  2. Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 96,038 Randolph Phillips v. John E. Tobin, Ralph K. Gottshall, and Alleghany CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1976
  3. Harry Lewis v. Al KnutsonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983
  4. In Re Sonus Networks, Inc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2007
  5. Joel R. Gaff v. Federal Deposit Insurance CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1987

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