CROCKER v. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INS. CORP.

No. 86-4546.

826 F.2d 347 (1987)

Ottis B. CROCKER, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION, Intervenor-Appellant, v. W.P. McMULLAN, et al., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 2, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Goodman, Jr., Paul J. Stephens, Jackson, Miss., for intervenor-appellant.

Luke Dove, Jackson, Miss., Grady F. Tollison, Oxford, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before JOLLY, HIGGINBOTHAM and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.


E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

In an attempt to bypass the general principles of standing in deriviative actions that usually bar individual shareholder suits, a class described as "minority shareholders" filed this nonderivative action against a bank's "controlling shareholders," on the theory that the minority had suffered individual harm not suffered by the corporation. Their theory has failed, and the derivative blockade has prevailed over the minority's hard...

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