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· 3/18/2009

Securities & Exchange Commission v. Enterprise Trust Co.

Citations

  • 559 F.3d 649
  • 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 6167

How courts have described this case

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

  • extending Devlin to hold that a business’s investors can appeal a receiver’s decision to distribute the business’s assets without formally intervening
  • extending Devlin to hold that a business’s investors can appeal a receiver’s decision to distribute the business’s assets without formally intervening
  • discussing certain cases where other circuits have allowed a nonparty appeal and concluding: “What these situations have in common is that the judicial decision concludes the rights of the affected person, who cannot litigate the issue in some other fo- rum.”
  • “There are no. hard rules governing a district court’s decisions in matters- like these. The standard is whether a distribution is equitable and fair in the eyes of a reasonable judge.”
  • “There are no hard rules governing a district court’s decisions in matters like these. The standard is whether a distribution is equitable and fair in the eyes of a reasonable judge.”
  • “District judges possess discretion to classify claims sensibly in receivership proceedings.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Easterbrook, Flaum, Manion

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