Opinion

Chris-Craft Industries, Inc. v. Piper Aircraft Corp.

  • 480 F.2d 341
  • 25 A.L.R. Fed. 534
Court
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Filed
Mar 16, 1973
Status
Published
Author
Timbers
On the bench
Gurfein, Mansfield, Timbers
Cited by
171 cases

Reversed on other grounds by Piper v. Chris-Craft Industries, Inc., 430 U.S. 1 (1977)

noting that, although an underwriter does not "in a literal sense" make statements to potential investors, we do not read § 14(e) so "narrowly"

How later courts described this case

  • noting that, although an underwriter does not "in a literal sense" make statements to potential investors, we do not read § 14(e) so "narrowly"
  • A presumption of reliance is established “where it is logical to presume that reliance in fact existed.”
  • "The materiality test is concerned only with whether a prototype reasonable investor would have relied."
  • noting underwriters’ “expertise in appraising the securities issue and the issuer” and their “special motive thoroughly to investigate the issuer’s strengths and weaknesses”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

CHRIS-CRAFT INDUSTRIES, INC. v. PIPER AIRCRAFT CORP., ET AL.

(No. 72-1064)

Petitions for rehearing having been filed herein on March 30, 1973 on behalf of appellees Howard Piper, Thomas F. Piper and William T. Piper, Jr.; on behalf of appellees Bangor Punta Corporation, Nicolas M. Salgo and David W. Wallace; and on behalf of appellees The First Boston Corporation, Paul L. Miller and Nicholas H. Bayard; and

Due consideration by the undersigned members of the panel having been given to said petitions for rehearing; it is therefore

ORDERED as follows:

(1) That, with respect to the petition for rehearing on behalf of appellees Paul L. Miller and Nicholas H. Bayard, the said petition is granted to the extent that the main opinion filed herein on March 16, 1973 is amended by adding the following sentence at the end of the first paragraph concluding on p. 380, supra:

“In view of the voluminous record, upon remand, the district court shall determine from the record whether, under the principles of liability regarding First Boston and its officers in this opinion, Paul L. Miller and Nicholas H. Bayard, or either of them, is individually liable.”

(2) That in all other respects the said petitions for rehearing are denied.

WALTER R. MANSFIELD United States Circuit Judge

WILLIAM H. TIMBERS United States Circuit Judge

MURRAY I. GURFEIN United States District Judge

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING EN BANC

CHRIS-CRAFT INDUSTRIES, INC. v. PIPER AIRCRAFT CORP., ET AL.

(No. 72-1064)

Petitions for a rehearing containing a suggestion that the action be reheard en banc having been filed herein by counsel for the appellees, and no active circuit judge having requested that a vote be taken on said suggestion,

Upon consideration thereof, it is

Ordered that said petitions be and they hereby are denied.

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

SEC v. BANGOR PUNTA CORP.

(No. 72-1053)

A petition for a rehearing having been filed herein by counsel for the appellant, Upon consideration thereof, it is Ordered that said petition be and it hereby is denied.

TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:

I dissent.

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING EN BANC

SEC v. BANGOR PUNTA CORP.

(No. 72-1053)

A petition for a rehearing containing a suggestion that the action be reheard en banc having been filed herein by counsel for the appellant, a poll of the judges in regular active service having been taken at the request of such a judge, and there being no majority in favor thereof,

Upon consideration thereof, it is

Ordered that said petition be and it hereby is denied.

HAYS, OAKES and TIMBERS, Circuit Judges:

We dissent. *

On August 15, 1973, the Solicitor General of the United States, on behalf of the SEC, filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in SEC v. Bangor Punta Corp. (No. 72-1053) to review the part of the judgment that affirmed denial of injunctive relief sought by the Commission.

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