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· 2/9/1981

Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 97,862 G. A. Thompson & Co., Inc. v. Herbert Partridge, Robert M. Presley, Frank Andrews and C. Thomas Murphy

Citations

  • 636 F.2d 945
  • 30 Fed. R. Serv. 2d 1605
  • 1981 U.S. App. LEXIS 20330

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that minority stockholder who was also officer and director “had the requisite power to directly or indirectly control or influence corporate policy”
  • recognizing that a party generally must object to a jury instruction at trial to preserve its ability to challenge it at a later stage
  • concluding that erroneous charge on burden of proof was not plain error
  • rejecting as a requirement for a prima facie case an allegation that the controlling person actually participated in the underlying primary violation
  • stressing need for bringing “the burden of proof issue to the trial judge’s attention so as to enable him to make a correction”
  • stressing need for bringing “the burden of proof issue to the trial judge’s attention so as to enable him to make a correction”

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Judges: Henderson, Kravitch, Reavley

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