Sep 25 2023 |
Delaware Supreme Court Affirms that D&O Insurer Must Cover Settlement of Alleged False Claims Act Violations |
Hunton Andrews Kurth |
Jul 29 2019 |
Delaware Supreme Court Allows Caremark Claim to Proceed Against Directors of Ice Cream Manufacturer Following Listeria Outbreak |
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
Jul 20 2022 |
Delaware Supreme Court Allows Use of “Reliable” Hearsay to Support Books-and-Records Demand |
Proskauer Rose LLP |
Nov 19 2012 |
Delaware Supreme Court Alters Fiduciary Duty Landscape for LLCs |
Barnes & Thornburg LLP |
Mar 22 2021 |
Delaware Supreme Court Applies Delaware Law Even When Insured Is Headquartered Elsewhere |
Bracewell LLP |
Sep 18 2019 |
Delaware Supreme Court Calculates Aruba’s Fair Value In An Appraisal Using Deal Price Minus Synergies, Reversing Lower Court’s 30-day Stock Price Calculation |
K&L Gates |
Nov 3 2010 |
Delaware Supreme Court Clarifies Law Regarding Standing of Plaintiff-Shareholders to Bring a Post-Merger Double Derivative Action |
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
Sep 14 2016 |
Delaware Supreme Court Clarifies New York’s Injury-in-Fact Trigger of Coverage for Asbestos Losses |
Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP |
Dec 12 2011 |
Delaware Supreme Court Clarifies Scope of Relief a Shareholder is Entitled For Inspection of Corporate Books And Records Pursuant To A Section 220 Demand |
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
Oct 17 2011 |
Delaware Supreme Court Clarifies When a Series of Dispositions will not Trigger an "All or Substantially All" Indenture Covenant |
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
Dec 1 2015 |
Delaware Supreme Court Clarifies When Friendship Could Compromise Director’s Independence |
Vedder Price |
Jan 6 2015 |
Delaware Supreme Court Confirms Chancery Court’s Broad Authority to Impose Use Restrictions on Information Obtained From Section 220 Books and Records Inspections |
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
Jan 19 2017 |
Delaware Supreme Court Confirms Dilution Claims Typically Are Derivative and Are Extinguished After Merger |
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
Jan 29 2018 |
Delaware Supreme Court Confirms Preclusive Effect of Dismissal of Derivative Actions Based on Lack of Demand Futility |
Proskauer Rose LLP |
Mar 19 2020 |
Delaware Supreme Court Confirms That Federal Forum Provision Is Facially Valid, Reversing Court of Chancery |
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
Mar 18 2014 |
Delaware Supreme Court Confirms the Path to Business Judgment Review in Controlling Stockholder Transactions |
Bracewell LLP |
Feb 15 2012 |
Delaware Supreme Court Declines to Apply Iqbal-Twombly "Plausibility" Pleading Standard |
Bracewell LLP |
Dec 7 2013 |
Delaware Supreme Court Defines Unexhausted Insurance Policies as Property of Dissolved Corporations |
Katten |
Mar 11 2021 |
Delaware Supreme Court Doles Out Landmark Choice-of-Law Decision in Dole Food Case |
Hunton Andrews Kurth |
Feb 16 2024 |
Delaware Supreme Court Enforces Forfeiture for Competition Provision in Partnership Agreement |
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
Jan 24 2023 |
Delaware Supreme Court Enforces Partnership Agreement’s Unambiguous Exculpation Provision Waiving Fiduciary Duties and Presuming Good Faith When Relying on Advice of Counsel in Reversing $690 Million Damages Award to Minority Investors of Boardwalk Pipeli |
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP |
May 15 2014 |
Delaware Supreme Court Finds Fee-Shifting Bylaw Permissible |
Hunton Andrews Kurth |
Aug 18 2014 |
Delaware Supreme Court Finds Fee-Shifting Provisions in Bylaws to Be Facially Valid |
Vedder Price |
Feb 22 2018 |
Delaware Supreme Court Heightens the Review Standard for Discretionary Equity Awards to Directors |
Jones Walker LLP |
May 29 2020 |
Delaware Supreme Court Holds Federal Forum Provisions Valid |
Barnes & Thornburg LLP |
Dec 31 2013 |
Delaware Supreme Court Holds Liability of Corporation May Still Exist Following Dissolution |
McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC |
Aug 12 2022 |
Delaware Supreme Court Holds Novel Pre-Closing Dividend Transaction Structure Does Not Thwart Appraisal Remedy |
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
Dec 12 2013 |
Delaware Supreme Court Holds Receiver is Required to Defend Lawsuits After a Corporation is Wound-Up; Finds No Generally Applicable Statute of Limitation for Claims Against a Dissolved Corporation |
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
May 19 2015 |
Delaware Supreme Court Holds That a Stockholder Plaintiff Must Plead a Non-Exculpated Claim to Avoid Section 102(b)(7)-Based Dismissal When Seeking Damages From Independent and Disinterested Directors |
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
Dec 30 2014 |
Delaware Supreme Court Holds That Court of Chancery Can Restrict Forum Where Books and Records Can Be Used |
Mintz |
Oct 1 2021 |
Delaware Supreme Court Holds that Equity Dilution and Expropriation Claims May Only Be Brought Derivatively, Overruling Prior Precedent |
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
Jul 8 2011 |
Delaware Supreme Court Holds That Insider Trading Claims Alleging Misuse of Confidential Corporate Information Need Not Show Injury To the Corporation |
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
May 29 2015 |
Delaware Supreme Court Holds That Plaintiffs Must Specifically Plead Non-Exculpated Claims Against Disinterested Directors in Transaction Under Entire Fairness Review to Survive Motion to Dismiss |
Katten |
Jul 9 2021 |
Delaware Supreme Court Holds That Surviving “Entire Fairness” Review is Not Conclusive of a Breach of Fiduciary Duty Claim Where Directors Acted Inequitably |
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
Jul 6 2015 |
Delaware Supreme Court Holds Tooley Direct vs. Derivative Rule Is No Bar to Parent Corporation’s Contract Claim |
Proskauer Rose LLP |