Rampart Capital Corporation v. Maguire

Justice HECHT, joined by Justice OWEN,

dissenting from the denial of the petition for review.

I respectfully dissent from the Court’s denial of the petition for review.

Rampart Capital Corporation filed thirty-seven lawsuits to collect on promissory notes given by the limited partners of a limited partnership. Jack and Margaret Maguire, two of the limited partners, and other defendants in several suits contested Rampart’s ownership of the notes. Rather than litigate the issue in each case, Rampart filed a separate suit against the limited partnership and its general partner to establish…