Legal Opinion

Field v. Trump

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided June 30, 1988No. 419, Docket 87-7578PublishedCited by 80 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

The legal issues in this appeal concern the meaning of the so-called “best-price rule” of Section 14(d)(7) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. § 78n(d)(7) (1982), and the disclosure obligations of a publicly held company under that Act.

Accepting the allegations of the complaint as true, this dispute arises from a leveraged buy-out in which defendants Julius and Eddie Trump, through corporations they owned and controlled, commenced a tender offer at a price of $22.50 per share for shares of defendant Pay’n Save Corporation, a Washington state corporation.…

2Cases cited30 opinions

  1. Ernst & Ernst v. HochfelderSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  2. Cort v. AshSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  3. TSC Industries, Inc. v. Northway, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1976
  4. Santa Fe Industries, Inc. v. GreenSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  5. Piper v. Chris-Craft Industries, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977

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3Cited by80 opinions

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