Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Holt v. Alleghany Corp.
16 L. Ed. 2d 335
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1966-04-18
- Topic
- general
corporation’s suit to set aside prior settlement of stockholders’ derivative action on ground that settlement obtained by fraudulent concealment of certain facts dismissed because the same fraudulent conduct gave rise to the prior suit
Citator
- Cited by
- 27 opinions
Per Curiam.
The writs of certiorari are dismissed as improvidently granted.
Mr. Justice Black dissents from dismissal of the writs and would reverse the judgments of the Court of Appeals and district courts substantially for the reasons stated in Judge Friendly’s dissent in the Court of Appeals, 333 F. 2d 327, 338. *29 Mr. Justice Harlan and Mr. Justice White dissent from the dismissal of the writs, believing that these cases having been taken for review should be adjudicated on the merits. Mr. Justice Douglas and Mr. Justice Fortas took no part in the consideration or decision of these cases.