United States First Circuit

In a case involving the Massachusetts law of close corporations and the ability of those corporations to give releases of claims of self-dealing, entry of judgment for the defendants is vacated where it is unclear whether the release at issue was valid and enforceable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/03/2003
• Published 11/03/2003

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, SILER, Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Howard M. Brown, with whom Frank F. McGinn and Bartlett Hackett Feinberg P.C. were on brief for appellants, cross-appellees., Stephen F. Gordon, with whom Ronald W. Dunbar, Jr., Leslie F. Su, Gordon Haley LLP and Henry Mark Holzer were on brief for appellees, cross-appellants.