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· 1/19/1970

De Palma v. United States

Citations

  • 396 U.S. 1046

How courts have described this case

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  • single director or shareholder can bring action on behalf of corporation without making demand on the board of directors to do so when futile to make such demand
  • single director or shareholder can bring action on behalf of corporation without making demand on the board of directors to do so when futile to make such demand
  • subdivider with a contract to develop property owned by a third party has a sufficient property interest where property \taken\ by government is adjacent to the third party's property
  • “The burden of proof, i.e., the risk of non-persuasion, never shifts from the party on whom it is placed. The burden of going forward with the evidence may shift during the course of trial”

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