Legal Opinion
Winkelman v. General Motors Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided November 18, 1942PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEIBELL, District Judge.
On November 4, 1942, I filed a memorandum, 48 F.Supp. 490, in which I considered certain objections that had been made to a proposed compromise of the above consolidated stockholders’ derivative action. The named defendants and several others had offered $4,000,000 in settlement, on condition that they receive a release in the form annexed to their offer. I held that
“ * * * the proposed compromise or settlement should be disapproved unless:—
“(1) There shall be specially excluded from the settlement any claim of General Motors Corporation against the Regent Corporation,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Winkelman v. General Motors CorporationDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1942
- Winkelman v. General Motors CorporationDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1942
3Cited by6 opinions
- Zerkle v. Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1971
- Heddendorf v. GoldfineDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1958
- Winkelman v. General Motors CorporationDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1942
- Nanfito v. TEKSEED HYBRID COMPANYDistrict Court, D. Nebraska · 1972
- Sophie Ruskay v. Chauncey L. WaddellCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1977
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