DOERMER v. CALLEN

No. 15-3734.

847 F.3d 522 (2017)

Richard DOERMER, both individually and derivatively on behalf of the Doermer Family Foundation, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kathryn CALLEN, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 1, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Goldwasser , Attorney, Schoenberg, Finkel, Newman & Rosenberg, Dom J. Rizzi , Attorney, Cafferty Clobes Meriwether & Sprengel LLP, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

James P. Fenton , Attorney, Eilbacher Fletcher , Fort Wayne, IN, for Defendants-Appellees Kathryn D. Callen, Phyllis Alberts, John M. Callen.

John R. Burns, III , Attorney, Fort Wayne, IN, Larry E. LaTarte , Attorney, Minneapolis, MN, Brian James Paul , Attorney, Daniel R. Roy , Attorney, Indianapolis, IN, Faegre Baker Daniels LLP, for Defendant-Appellee Doermer Family Foundation, Incorporated.

William A. Ramsey , Attorney, Rachel Steinhofer , Barrett & McNagny LLP, Fort Wayne, IN, for Defendant-Appellee University of Saint Francis of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Incorporated.

Before Williams and Hamilton, Circuit Judges, and Chang, District Judge.


This case poses several questions under the Indiana Nonprofit Corporation Act of 1991 about the governance of nonprofit corporations in Indiana. The case pits brother against sister in a long-running dispute over control of a small family foundation established by their parents. Plaintiff Richard Doermer is a member of the...

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