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Seventh Circuit· 1/21/1998

Felzen v. Andreas

Citations

  • 134 F.3d 873
  • 1998 WL 17964

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a judicial opinion on jurisdiction must always apply retroactively because courts cannot consider the merits of a case over which they lack jurisdiction
  • holding that the abuse of discretion standard “is not reserved only for purely economic [class action] litigation” and thus “will govern our review of the district court’s approval of the [desegregation] settlement proposal.”
  • stating, in a shareholder case, that an attempt to intervene is not enough to confer standing and abrogating its former rule that class members and stockholders could appeal without intervening
  • stating, in a shareholder case, that an attempt to intervene is not enough to confer standing and abrogating its former rule that class members and stock- holders could appeal without intervening
  • dismissing appeals of unnamed members of plaintiff class and \formally overrul[ing] Asgrow Seed and any other case in this circuit . . . that permits non-parties to appeal from a decision of any kind in a class action\
  • “Only when the corporation’s board defaults in its duty to protect the interests of the investors is ... [a derivative suit] permitted.”

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Judges: Easterbrook, Flaum, Posner

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