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Bangor Punta Operations Vs. Bangor and Aroostook R.

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 19, 1974

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  1. Burnet Vs. Clark US Supreme Court · Dec 12, 1932
  2. Ross Vs. Bernhard US Supreme Court · Feb 02, 1970
  3. Anderson Vs. Abbott US Supreme Court · Mar 06, 1944
  4. Meyer Vs. Fleming US Supreme Court · Feb 04, 1946
  5. Hawes Vs. Oakland US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1881
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  6. Briggs Vs. Spaulding US Supreme Court · May 25, 1891
  7. Bangor Punta Operations v. Bangor
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  8. Aroostook R. - 417 U.S. 703 (1974) U.S. Supreme Court Bangor Punta Operations v. Bangor
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  9. Aroostook R., 417 U.S. 703 (1974) Bangor Punta Operations, Inc. v. Bangor
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  10. would have no standing in equity to maintain this action for alleged corporate mismanagement. Home Fire Insurance Co. v. Barber
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  11. his shares from those who participated or acquiesced in the allegedly wrongful transactions. See, e.g., Bloodworth v. Bloodworth
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  12. Babcock v. Farwell
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  13. then seeks to have the corporation recover against that vendor for prior corporate mismanagement. See, e.g., Matthews v. Headley
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  14. Home Fire Insurance Co. v. Barber
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  15. Neb. 644, 661-662, 93 N.W. 1024, 1030-1031 (1903). See also Amen v. Black
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  16. explicated long ago by Dean (then Commissioner) Roscoe Pound in Home Page 417 U. S. 711 Fire Insurance Co. v. Barber
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  17. disregarded in the interests of justice where it is used to defeat an overriding public policy. New Colonial Ice Co. v. Helvering
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  18. Chicago, M. & St. P. R. Co. v. Minneapolis
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  19. preclude the shareholders from maintaining an action in their own right, the corporation would also be precluded. Amen v. Black
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  20. Capitol Wine & Spirit Corp. v. Pokrass
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  21. Matthews v. Headley
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  22. and the common law of Maine. In Forbes v. Wells
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  23. See Hyams v. Old
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  24. entity may be disregarded if equity so demands is accepted by Maine precedents. See, e.g., Bonnar-Vawter, Inc. v. Johnson
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  25. requirement in shareholder derivative actions was first announced in Hawes v. Oakland
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  26. was later incorporated in Equity Rule 27 and finally in the present Rule 23.1. After the decision in Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins
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  27. This principle obtains in the great majority of jurisdictions. See, e.g., Russell v. Louis
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  28. Klum v. Clinton
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  29. Clark v. American
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  30. Boldenweck v. Bullis
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  31. Maine, in fact, had a contemporaneous ownership requirement prior to that time. 353 F.Supp. at 727. See R. Field, V. McKusick
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  32. basis, even though the action is brought in the name of the corporation to enforce primary rights. See, e.g., Matthews v. Headley
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  33. U. S. 410 , 287 U. S. 415 (1932). See also New Colonial Ice Co. v. Helvering
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  34. therefore concludes that this suit must be barred under the equitable principles set forth in Home Fire Insurance Co. v. Barber
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  35. antitrust laws. I The majority places primary reliance on Dean Pound's decision in Home Fire Insurance Co. v. Barber
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  36. Neb. at 655, 93 N.W. at 1028. Cf. Capitol Wine & Spirit Corp. v. Pokrass
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  37. in a derivative action enforces not his own individual rights, but rights which the corporation has. See Meyer v. Fleming
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  38. Koster v. Lumbermens
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  39. Brown v. Board
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  40. SEC v. United
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  41. United States v. Trans-Missouri
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  42. Texas & Pacific R. Co. v. Gulf
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  43. should pierce the corporate veil only when necessary to serve some paramount public interest, see Schenley Corp. v. United
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  44. New Colonial Ice Co. v. Helvering
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  45. of our Nation's antitrust laws, specifically designed to protect common carriers such as railroads. See United States v. Boston
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  46. Minneapolis & St. Louis R. Co. v. United
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  47. serve to vindicate this important congressional policy. See Klinger v. Baltimore
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  48. Page 417 U. S. 731 I would find counsel instead in this Court's opinion in Perma Life Mufflers v. International
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  49. Independent Wireless Tel. Co. v. Radio
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  50. seek redress for wrongs done the corporation might well subject the directors to personal liability. See, e.g., Briggs v. Spaulding
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