Legal Opinion
Shoen v. Amerco
District Court, D. Nevada
Decided October 6, 1994No. CV-N-94-0475-ECRPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
EDWARD C. REED, Jr., District Judge.
I. BACKGROUND.
AMERCO is a holding company. Its principal subsidiary is U-Haul International, Inc. Paul Shoen (“Paul”) 1 owns just under nine percent of AMERCO’s common stock, with an appraised value of over $59 million. 2 Paul is trying to change the composition of AMERCO’s board of directors and amend the company’s bylaws. Hence this litigation. He has filed suit against AMERCO, its directors, its employee stock ownership plan (or “ESOP”), and the ESOP’s trustees, alleging that they have violated federal securities laws and breached…
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Brown v. Kinross Gold U.S.A., Inc.District Court, D. Nevada · 2008
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