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· 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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