Legal Opinion

Kathryn R. Walton and Irmgart Van Daell Heckel v. Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, and Olinkraft, Inc.

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided June 4, 1980No. 685, Docket 79-7725PublishedCited by 70 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

Kathryn R. Walton and Irmgart Van Daell Heckel appeal from an order entered by Judge Morris Lasker in the District Court for the Southern District of New York on October 10,1979. The district court dismissed appellants’ complaint, which they had filed derivatively on behalf of Olinkraft, Inc. and which alleged that Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. had breached a fiduciary duty it owed to Olinkraft, because appellants had not alleged any injury to Olinkraft and therefore, according to the district court, they lacked standing. We affirm the district court’s order on a different…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Warth v. SeldinSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  2. Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
  3. Chiarella v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  4. Helvering v. GowranSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
  5. Day & Zimmermann, Inc. v. ChallonerSupreme Court of the United States · 1975

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3Cited by70 opinions

  1. Michael E. Moss v. Morgan Stanley Inc., E. Jacques Courtois, Jr., Adrian Antoniu, and James M. Newman, Morgan Stanley Inc. And James M. NewmanCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1983
  2. Dirks v. Securities & Exchange CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  3. United States v. Robert ChestmanCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1991
  4. Cumberland Oil Corporation and Sugargrove, Ltd. v. James Thropp, Gregory Thropp, Arrowhead Gas Producers, Inc., and Southern Tier, Ltd.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1986
  5. Moss v. Morgan Stanley Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1983

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