The indispensable Francis Pileggi, friend of the blog, Delaware lawyer, and blogger on all things Delaware corporate and commercial law, sent along a list of his commentary on important recent Delaware cases. It's bound to be of interest to the corporate law folks who hang out here.
Supreme Court Upholds $2 Billion Judgment and $300 Million Fee Award
http://www.delawarelitigation.com/2012/08/articles/delaware-supreme-court-updates/supreme-ct-op-on-southern-peru/
LP Member Protected from Self-Interested Transaction by Terms of LP
Agreement
http://www.delawarelitigation.com/2012/09/articles/chancery-court-updates/encore/
Court Defines Good Faith as a Contract Standard Among Partners
http://www.delawarelitigation.com/2012/08/articles/chancery-court-updates/chancery-defines-good-faith-for-purposes-of-contract-law/
Court Clarifies Duties of Majority Shareholder When Company is For Sale
http://www.delawarelitigation.com/2012/08/articles/chancery-court-updates/the-borders-of/
Expert Report Prepared for Board Need Not Be Produced
http://www.delawarelitigation.com/2012/08/articles/chancery-court-updates/court-grants-motion-to-compel-personal-financial-information/
Election of Directors by Written Consent Upheld
http://www.delawarelitigation.com/2012/08/articles/chancery-court-updates/court-validates-action-by-written-consent-to-elect-new-board/
Non-Unanimous Written Consents Not Sufficient to Challenge Director
Election
http://www.delawarelitigation.com/2012/08/articles/chancery-court-updates/chancery-allows-challenge-to-director-election-to-proceed/
Statutory Appraisal of Minority Shares in Merger Context
http://www.delawarelitigation.com/2012/07/articles/chancery-court-updates/orchard-2/
Attorneys' Fees Imposed on Party Requesting Imposition of Fees on Opposing
Party
http://www.delawarelitigation.com/2012/07/articles/chancery-court-updates/chancery-imposes-attorneys-fees-on-party-who-requested-fees-against-opposing-party/
A guide that we prepared with practice tips for non-Delaware lawyers that
use "local counsel" in Delaware is available at the following link:
http://www.delawarelitigation.com/2012/07/articles/commentary/delaware-practice-and-procedure-for-non-delaware-lawyers/
Two prior "partial year summaries" of key cases that we compiled earlier
this year are available at the following two links:
http://www.delawarelitigation.com/2012/07/articles/chancery-court-updates/review-of-recent-corporate-and-commercial-decisions/
and
http://www.delawarelitigation.com/2012/04/articles/annual-review-of-cases/key-delaware-corporate-and-commercial-decisions-in-first-4-months-of-2012-2/
