896 F. Supp. 403 - Feige v. Sechrest’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Burford v. Sun Oil Co. · New Orleans Public Service, Inc. v. Council of City of New Orleans · Porter v. Warner Holding Co. · Tafflin v. Levitt · Lac D'Amiante du Quebec v. American Home Assurance Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiffs’ claims against non-Corporate Life defendants, to the extent they do not arise under the Insurance Act, are not within the original jurisdiction of the Commonwealth Court. Nevertheless, those involving the French Company and the Hearthstone bonds materially affect Corporate Life and are therefore a part of the Commonwealth Court action. All of the claims against the principals of Corporate Life are derivative. The remaining ones are against Sechrest for conversion of plaintiffs’ assets and illegal litigation tactics by reason of his allegedly joining forces with Corporate Life. These claims should be decided as part of the original dispute between Corporate Life and Feige-Sechrest or deferred until that dispute is resolved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Feige v. Sechrest“Where timely and adequate state-court review is available, a federal court sitting in equity must decline to interfere with' the proceedings or orders of state administrative agencies: (1) when there are “difficult questions of state law bearing on policy problems of substantial public import whose importance transcends the result in the case then at bar”; or (2) where the “exercise of federal review of the question in a case and in similar cases would be disruptive of state efforts to establish a coherent policy with respect to a matter of substantial public concern.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Feige v. Sechrest“[t]he essence of the action is that the combination formed by Corporate Life and Sechrest against Feige should be set aside and penalized. These are matters that obviously sound in equity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Feige
How this case has been treated — in progress
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