Legal Opinion
Rita Gottesman v. General Motors Corporation and E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 18, 1959No. 194_1PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Chief Judge.
General Motors Corporation and E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, defendants in a shareholders’ derivative action, seek permission to take an interlocutory appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b) from the denial of their motion to dismiss the complaint for failure to comply with Rule 23(b), F.R.Civ.P. This suit, a consolidation of three actions instituted shortly after the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., 353 U.S. 586, 77 S.Ct. 872, 1 L.Ed.2d 1057, is prosecuted by stockholders of General Motors seeking to recover treble damages and…
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