IROQUOIS INDUSTRIES, INC. v. SYRACUSE CHINA CORPORATION

No. 428, Docket 32984.

417 F.2d 963 (1969)

IROQUOIS INDUSTRIES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SYRACUSE CHINA CORPORATION, William R. Salisbury, Foster T. Rhodes, Malcolm E. Kelley, James Salisbury Pass, Robert M. Salisbury, Harold C. Brown & Co., Inc., Harold C. Brown, C. Herbert Feuchter, and Towle Manufacturing Company, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided November 3, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank G. Raichle, Buffalo, N. Y. (Raichle, Banning, Weiss & Halpern, Buffalo, N. Y., Ralph L. Halpern, Buffalo, N. Y., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

George H. Bond, Jr., Syracuse, N. Y. (Bond, Schoeneck & King, Charles T. Beeching, Jr., Syracuse, N. Y., on the brief), for defendants-appellees Syracuse China Corporation, William R. Salisbury, First Trust & Deposit Co. and Josephine Rhodes, as Executors of Estate of Foster T. Rhodes, Malcolm E. Kelley, James Salisbury Pass, Robert M. Salisbury.

Hilary P. Bradford, Buffalo, N. Y. (Cohen, Swados, Wright, Hanifin & Bradford, F. Harris Nichols, Buffalo, N. Y., on the brief), for defendants-appellees Harold C. Brown & Co., Inc., Harold C. Brown and C. Herbert Feuchter.

Hugh McM. Russ, Sr., Buffalo, N. Y. (Hodgson, Russ, Andrews, Woods & Goodyear, John J. Cooney, Stephen Kellogg, Buffalo, N. Y., on the brief), for defendant-appellee Towle Manufacturing Co.

Philip A. Loomis, Jr., Gen. Counsel, Walter P. North, Associate Gen. Counsel, Jacob H. Stillman, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Alan Blank, Atty., Washington, D. C., for Securities and Exchange Commission, amicus curiae.

Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge, ANDERSON, Circuit Judge, and WYATT, District Judge.


WYATT, District Judge:

The principal question, an important one, raised by this appeal is the extent to which Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. § 78a and following; the "1934 Act") is applicable in tender offer situations. Closely related is a question as to the continuing vitality of the decision of this Court in Birnbaum v. Newport Steel Corp., 193 F.2d 461 (2d Cir.), cert. denied 343 U.S. 956...

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