Delaware Supreme Court on good faith and the duty of loyalty in a Revlon setting
The Delaware Supreme Court, sitting en banc, has held that the Court of Chancery erred when it ruled
that liability for breach of the duty of loyalty in a bad faith context could
be imposed without a showing of intent.
The Supreme Court of South Dakota has held that an LLC may
be dissolved when two of four members refuse to renegotiate the terms of an
agreement between the LLC and those two members.
In Kirksey v. Grohmann,
four sisters were left equal…
Delaware Court of Chancery on good faith and the duty of loyalty in a Revlon setting again
The Delaware Court of Chancery has erroneously held that it
was correct in its earlier decision to permit a case to survive summary
judgment under Stone v. Ritter
without facts indicating that the defendants intended to violate a known duty.…
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Today in Legal History: Brown v. Board of Education Decided
On May 17, 1954, in a monumental civil rights victory, the U. S. Supreme Court unanimously decided in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The court argued that segregation of…
Lt. Tommy Hart is a second year Harvard Law student who enlisted to fight in World War II, but instead of fighting he was taken prisoner by the Germans. When a black Tuskegee airman, Lt. Lincoln Scott (Terrence Howard), is accused of…