Landy v. Federal Deposit Insurance

Parentheticals

• noting that an appellate court can properly take judicial notice of any matter of which any court of original jurisdiction may properly take notice

  Blatchford v. Gonzales

• requiring proof that "the encouragement or assistance is a substantial factor in causing the resulting tort”

  Harris v. Comptronix Corp.

• indicating that accountant liability turns on foreseeability of plaintiff’s reliance

  Federal Deposit Insurance v. Jennings

• stockholder free to initiate derivative action when receiver refuses to initiate suit necessary for protection of creditors

  Laker Airways Limited, a Foreign Corporation v. Sabena, Belgian World Airlines, a Foreign Corporation Klm, Royal Dutch Airlines, a Foreign Corporation, Laker Airways Limited, a Foreign Corporation v. Sabena, Belgian World Airlines, a Foreign Corporation, Klm, Royal Dutch Airlines, a Foreign Corporation

• stockholder free to initiate derivative action when receiver refuses to initiate suit necessary for protection of creditors

  Laker Airways Ltd. v. Sabena, Belgian World Airlines

• discussion of only four alternatives sufficient as long as those alternatives are “sufficient to permit a reasoned choice”

  C.A.R.E. Now, Inc., Jerry P. Cram, Charles L. Feltus and Robert Lundsten v. Federal Aviation Administration

• defendant liable “to all those persons whom he should reasonably have foreseen would be injured by his misrepresentation”

  Mills v. Cosmopolitan Ins. Agcy., Inc.

• defendant liable "to all those persons whom he should reasonably have foreseen would be injured by his misrepresentation"

  Mills v. Cosmopolitan Ins. Agcy., Inc.

• an aider and abettor is liable if an independent wrong exists, he knew of the wrong, and substantial assistance was given in effecting it

  Samuel WEAVER and Alice Weaver, Appellants, v. MARINE BANK

• judicial notice frequently taken of developments not of record in the application of mootness doctrine by appellate courts

  Huddleston v. Nelson Bunker Hunt Trust Estate

• a scheme deliberately calculated to manipulate market value of stock violates the securities laws

  Ross v. Bolton

• proof of “wrongful act” by primary wrongdoer suffices for first element

  Marbury Management, Inc. v. Kohn