AMALGAMATED SUGAR CO. v. NL INDUSTRIES, INC.

No. 1325, Docket 87-7287.

825 F.2d 634 (1987)

The AMALGAMATED SUGAR COMPANY, LLC Corporation and LN Partnership, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. NL INDUSTRIES, INC., Robert A. Bicks, Nicholas F. Brady, Maurice F. Granville, William A. Marquard, James F. Mathis, Theodore C. Rogers, Ian M. Ross, Herman J. Schmidt, Robert G. Schwartz, Donald V. Seibert, Eleanor B. Sheldon, and Thomas P. Stafford, Defendants-Appellees, Richard Rothenberg, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 28, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Gottschalk, Washington, D.C. (Kirkland & Ellis, Frederick M. Rowe, Daniel F. Attridge, Jeffrey A. Rosen, Yosef J. Riemer, Washington, D.C., Townley & Updike, James K. Leader, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee The Amalgamated Sugar Co.

Dorsey & Whitney, New York City (Richard L. Bond, John G. Rainey, Jr., of counsel) for defendant-appellee NL Industries.

Irving Malchman, New York City (Kaufman, Malchman, Kaufmann & Kirby, of counsel), for appellant.

Before OAKES, MESKILL, and PRATT, Circuit Judges.


GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:

Richard Rothenberg, owner of 100 shares of NL Industries, Inc. ("NL"), appeals from an order of the District Court for the Southern District of New York, Broderick, Judge, entering a permanent injunction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2283 enjoining Rothenberg from pursuing any action "premised upon the asserted validity" of NL's preferred share purchase rights plan ("purchase rights plan"), sometimes referred to as a "poison pill...

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