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Unhappy investors, who have seen their Citi stock plummet from $25 one year ago to less than $3 in April, had sought to sue current and former Citi directors for failing to properly monitor, manage, and disclose Citigroup's risks in the sub-prime lending market. The court, however, refused to "second guess" the soundness of Citi's decisions.
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..., Jones & Elliot, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware, Robert M. Kaplan, Robson Ferber Frost Chan & Essn...The District Court ruled that Stanziale failed to allege sufficient facts i... fiduciaries act within the bounds of business judgment, which the State defines quite broadly. W...
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This article explores the competing interests between director authority and accountability within the doctrinal developments underpinning the arguments for and against director oversight liability. The historic losses suffered by companies entangled in the web of subprime mortgages, collateralized debt holdings, and the ensuing credit crisis have brought the role of corporate directors as risk managers under renewed public scrutiny. Directors' authority and their accountability to shareholders are two critical pieces to striking the appropriate balance among the roles, rights, and responsibilities of directors, officers, shareholders, and other corporate constituencies who operate within the corporate power puzzle. Numerous shareholder derivative suits brought in the wake of such losse...
... limited by familiar concepts such as the business judgment rule and other doctrinal developments, ma...
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...(1) (Hammons), a recent Delaware Chancery Court decision, announced new requirement... must meet to ensure deferential "business judgment" review of acquisitions by third-party ac... the facts of Hammons and analyzes the legal rule promulgated by the decision. Part II argues that t...
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The very role of a board of directors in the system of corporate governance is to oversee a corporation's business and affairs, including its management, because numerous dispersed stockholders cannot effectively perform that function on their own. But if directors incurred liability for every misstep they took, or bad decision they made, it would indeed be rare to find a person willing to serve as a director. In Delaware, where the majority of US corporations are incorporated, the hallmark fiduciary duties are the duties of care and loyalty. But if Delaware corporate law is considered the national corporate law, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is perhaps best described as its smash sequel. While competent, good, or best corporate practices vary from circumstance, from company to company...
...But unlike the rules-based Reform, fiduciary duty law is standards base... is referred to as the business judgment rule.29 Stockholders challenging director action c...
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...On cross-motions for summary judgment, the Special Master filed a report recommending a .... . , subject to such general rules and regulations as the legislature may prescribe f... to authorize joint regulation of "the business of fishing in the Delaware River and Bay." Ibid. ...
