Legal Opinion
Ellen Jones, Leo P. Portnoy, Applicant-In-Intervention-Appellant v. Nuclear Pharmacy, Inc., a New Mexico Corporation, and Robert Lee Sanchez
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 22, 1984No. 83-2264PublishedCited by 100 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McKAY, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the trial court’s order approving the terms of a settlement agreement in a shareholder’s derivative suit. We are asked to review whether the trial court violated the constitutional process due an objecting shareholder by failing to hear live testimony at the settlement hearing.
This case was fraught with the kinds of acrimonious assaults, vitriolic comments and contumacious behavior that all too frequently plague and characterize suits of this nature. See, e.g., Record, vol. 1, at 26-27, 32, 36-44, 206-07. With that caveat in mind, only a brief…
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