Legal Opinion
Joseph H. Whitney v. The Guys, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided November 6, 2012No. 11-3050PublishedCited by 223 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MELLOY, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Joseph H. "Whitney appeals the district court’s .dismissal of his declaratory judgment, contract, unjust-enrichment, tort, and shareholder claims. Applying a choice-of-law analysis, the district court dismissed the contract and unjust-enrichment claims as barred by a Delaware statute of limitations and dismissed the tort and declaratory judgment claims as derivative of the contract claims. The district court dismissed the shareholder claims as insufficiently pleaded pursuant to Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678, 129 S.Ct. 1937, 173 L.Ed.2d 868 (2009), and…
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