M.J. WHITMAN & CO. v. AMERICAN FIN. ENTERPRISES

No. 83-3012.

725 F.2d 394 (1984)

M.J. WHITMAN & CO., INC. PENSION PLAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICAN FINANCIAL ENTERPRISES, INC., American Financial Corporation, Carl H. Lindner, Robert D. Lindner, Julius S. Anreder, James E. Evans, David M. Gerstein, Sandra W. Heimann, S. Craig Lindner, Lester W. Rubin, and Ronald F. Walker, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided January 17, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gene Mesh, Cincinnati, Ohio, Sidney B. Silverman, argued, Silverman & Harnes, New York City, for plaintiff-appellant.

Louis F. Gilligan, Cincinnati, Ohio, James E. Burke, argued, for defendants-appellees.

Before KEITH and KENNEDY, Circuit Judges, and PRATT, District Judge.


CORNELIA G. KENNEDY, Circuit Judge.

M.J. Whitman & Co., Inc. Pension Plan (Whitman), a shareholder in American Financial Enterprises, Inc. (AFEI), brought this derivative suit to compel AFEI to register under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (ICA or the Act), 15 U.S.C. § 80a-1 et seq. (1981). The District Court found no private right of action to compel registration under the ICA and granted summary judgment...

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