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Does Delaware Have Personal Jurisdiction Over Controlling Stockholders?

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Delaware Chancellor Kathaleen St. J. McCormick's decision to set aside Elon Musk's multibillion dollar compensation package with Tesla, Inc. has garnered widespread in the general and legal press.  Tornetta v. Musk, 2024 WL...more

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Why Is McDonald's Former V.P. Being Judged In Delaware By Delaware Law?

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Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster's recently ruled that McDonald's Corporation's former Executive Vice President and Global Chief People Officer, David Fairhurst, owed a duty of oversight comparable to the duty articulated by...more

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Will Mallory Doom Delaware's Officer Exculpation Statute And Its Corporate Hegemony?

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Last summer, Delaware amended Section 102(b)(7) to permit the exculpation of certain officers for direct (but not derivative) stockholder suits for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty...more

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Court Finds No Personal Jurisdiction Over Foreign Director Of California Corporation

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Frank Hemm, a citizen of Switzerland, served on the board of directors of Rodo Medical, Inc., a California corporation.  He was also an executive of Institut Straumann AG, a Swiss corporation and investor in Rodo.   Mr. Hemm...more

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Delaware Supreme Court: No General Jurisdiction Over Non-Delaware Businesses Simply by Virtue of Registering to Do Business in...

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Merely registering to do business in Delaware does not subject a non-Delaware company to the general jurisdiction of Delaware courts. In Genuine Parts Company v. Cepec, Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice Leo E....more

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Delaware Supreme Court Rules that Qualifying to Do Business as a Foreign Entity Does Not Operate as a Consent to General...

On April 18, 2016 the Delaware Supreme Court, in a 4-1 decision, held that a foreign corporation does not expressly consent to general jurisdiction by merely registering to do business in the state and appointing an agent for...more

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Filing an ANDA May Expose Generic Manufacturers to Nationwide Personal Jurisdiction in Patent Infringement Suits

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On March 18, 2016, the Federal Circuit affirmed the District of Delaware’s ruling in two companion cases that West Virginia-based defendant Mylan Pharmaceuticals is subject to specific personal jurisdiction in Delaware....more

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