Legal Opinion
Mokhiber on Behalf of Ford Motor Co. v. Cohn
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 15, 1985No. 81 Civ. 6672 (WK)PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM & ORDER
WHITMAN KNAPP, District Judge.
In this diversity action plaintiff (hereinafter the “instant plaintiff”), 1 a shareholder of the Ford Motor Company (the “Company”), a Delaware corporation with its headquarters in Michigan, seeks to require certain attorneys to repay to the Company the sum of $230,000 (plus pre-judgment interest) claimed to have been improperly received by them in an allegedly unauthorized settlement of a previous derivative suit.
The attorneys involved in the previous litigation are two firms, Saxe, Bacon & Bolán, P.C. (the “Cohn firm”), principally represented…
2Cases cited32 opinions
- Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1970
- City of Detroit v. Grinnell Corporation, Manhattan-Ward, Incorporated v. Grinnell Corporation, 1225 Vine Street Building, Inc. v. Grinnell CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1974
- Sprague v. Ticonic National BankSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
- New York State Association for Retarded Children, Inc. v. Hugh L. Carey, Individually and as Governor of the State of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1983
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3Cited by11 opinions
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- Polar International Brokerage Corp. v. ReeveDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1999
- Martin v. F.S. Payne Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1991
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