· 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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