· 1/22/1979
Grooms v. Indiana
Citations
- 439 U.S. 1131
- 99 S. Ct. 1053
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that shareholders’ action against, among others, the corporation and insurance companies should have been brought as a derivative action where plaintiffs alleged injury to the corporation and not the shareholders directly
- “only the corporation may bring a RICO action to redress injury suffered by the corporation”
- “ ‘It is only where the injury sustained to one’s stock is peculiar to him alone, and does not fall alike upon other stockholders, that one can recover as an individual.’ ”
- company ceased operation following financial losses
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