Amelia Roosevelt v. E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• exercising discretion to address- an issue first raised on appeal because “the issue is. purely one of law important in the administration of federal - justice, and resolution of the issue does not depend on any additional facts not considered by the district court”
• the adoption/implementation distinction is not dispositive under all circumstances because, depending on the situation, “implementation arrangements” may “implicate[ ] significant policy issues”
• “The [S.E.C.] has consistently regarded the court, and not the agency, as the formal and binding adjudicator of Rule 14a-8’s implementation of section 14(a).”
• Absent exceptional 61 circumstances, “it is not our practice to entertain issues first raised on appeal[.]”
• “[S]ection 14(a) shelters use of the proxy solicitation process as a means by which stockholders may become informed about management policies and may communicate with each other.”
• no-action letter is neither “an agency adjudication or rulemaking”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).