The Delaware Supreme Court recently reversed a decision of the Delaware Court of Chancery, highlighted on these pages, that addressed whether the general partner of a limited partnership relied in good faith on the formal legal opinion of a law firm to support a going-private transaction. (Photo at right shows the Supreme Court Building in
The Delaware Court of Chancery recently determined that regardless of the absence of a formal title or role, one can be found to be acting as a de facto manager of an LLC, and therefore, subject to personal jurisdiction of the court, as well as being bound by common law fiduciary duties, pursuant to Section
This post was prepared by Frank Reynolds, who has been following Delaware law and writing about it in various publications for over 30 years.
The Delaware Chancery Court recently rejected most of a motion for re-argument of a ruling in which it had found an attorney-client and work-product privilege log deficiently documented in expedited litigation
Forum selection clauses have been the focus of many decision highlighted on these pages over the last 18 years. But a pending appeal before the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit may have an outsized impact on Delaware litigation regarding this issue. In a case involving the Gap, Inc., the
A new book by the prolific corporate law scholar, Prof. Stephen Bainbridge, who is often cited in Delaware court opinions, addresses the movement referred to as ESG: the “800-pound gorilla” in current developments in corporate law. The good professor contributes his prodigious expertise and lifelong scholarship in service of informing the public about this
The Delaware Court of Chancery recently published a comprehensive and scholarly analysis of the limited scope of the subject-matter jurisdiction of Delaware’s court of equity, and refused to accept a case that sought a permanent injunction, in a formal opinion styled: In re Covid-Related Restrictions on Religious Services, Consol. C.A. No. 2021-1036-JTL (Del. Ch.
Although this short post does not qualify as breaking news, it will be a useful reminder for some:
The Delaware Court of Chancery prefers “stockholder” as the term uniformly used in the Delaware General Corporation Law for those owning a corporation, though in the past, especially prior to the 2010 DGCL amendments, there were inconsistent
This post was prepared by Frank Reynolds, who has been following Delaware law and writing about it in various publications for over 30 years.
The Chancery Court’s chief judge recently ruled Carvana Corp. controller Ernest Garcia ll stated only one of eight needed factors for a quick appeal of her June decision that he and
The Delaware Court of Chancery’s recent opinion in XRI Investment Holdings LLC v. Holifield, No. 2021-0619-JTL (Del. Ch. Sept. 19, 2022), should be included in the pantheon of consequential Delaware Chancery opinions and will remain noteworthy for many reasons that deserve to be the subject of a law review article, but for purposes of
This post was prepared by Frank Reynolds, who has been following Delaware law and writing about it in various publications for over 30 years.
The Delaware Supreme Court recently overturned the approval of a settlement of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. shareholder’s legal challenge to an allegedly extravagant pay plan for the investment company’s non-employee