United States Sixth Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's claims for breach of trust, shareholder oppression, and fraud claims is affirmed regarding challenged business transactions involving defendants, a family-owned business, a trust company, and plaintiff's siblings, where dismissal was proper on grounds of collateral estoppel or for failure to plead with sufficient particularity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/19/2006
• Published 01/19/2006

Judges

• Before:  SILER, CLAY, and ROGERS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Dominic J. Campisi, Evans, Latham & Campisi, San Francisco, California, for Appellant.  I.W. Winsten, Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohn, Detroit, Michigan, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Dominic J. Campisi, Evans, Latham & Campisi, San Francisco, California, Donald J. Gasiorek, James N. McNally, Sommers, Schwartz, Silver & Schwartz, Southfield, Michigan, for Appellant.  I.W. Winsten, Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohn, Detroit, Michigan, Bruce T. Wallace, Susan T. Cannell, Hooper, Hathaway, Price, Beuche & Wallace, Ann Arbor, Michigan, for Appellees.