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Checking In on Caremark Cases in Delaware

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Over the last ten years, we have seen a marked shift from the Delaware Chancery Court chipping away at corporate board member liability claims.  In a number of seminal cases involving Boeing airplane crashes (In re the Boeing...more

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Recent Delaware cases clarify Caremark oversight duties for directors and executive officers

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A claim for breach of the duty of oversight is known as a Caremark claim, after the landmark Delaware Court of Chancery decision in In re Caremark International Inc. Derivative Litigation (1996). Since then, Delaware courts...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

The Ramifications of The Delaware Court of Chancery’s McDonald’s Decision – Beyond Holding That Caremark Oversight Obligations...

Last year, we discussed how stockholder complaints concerning environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) issues were making their way to the courtroom and, specifically, how  the Delaware Court of Chancery and Supreme...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Caremark Update: Delaware Court of Chancery Dismisses Two ‘Oversight’ Derivative Actions Arising From Government Investigations

The Delaware Court of Chancery recently issued two opinions — Richardson v. Clark (MoneyGram) and Fisher v. Sanborn (LendingClub) — that dismissed stockholder derivative claims for breach of directors’ oversight duties...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Health Care Provider Director and Officer Liability: Important Takeaways from Clovis and Marchand

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Health care provider boards of directors have been put on notice—given these two recent Delaware court decisions - Clovis and Marchand—that courts may be willing to significantly extend a corporate board’s Caremark duty to...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Delaware Supreme Court Allows Caremark Claim to Proceed Against Directors of Ice Cream Manufacturer Following Listeria Outbreak

In Marchand v. Barnhill, No. 533, 2018, 2019 Del. LEXIS 310 (Del. June 18, 2019), the Delaware Supreme Court (Strine, C.J.) reversed a Delaware Court of Chancery (Slights, V.C.) order dismissing a derivative claim alleging...more

A&O Shearman

M&A Watch — Caremark Unfrozen: Delaware Supreme Court Revisits Oversight Claims

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The Delaware Supreme Court recently took the opportunity to revisit Caremark with its en banc decision in Marchand v. Barnhill, No. 533, 2018 (Del. June 19, 2019). In Marchand, the Court reversed the dismissal of a...more

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Delaware Supreme Court Reverses Dismissal of Caremark Claim, Finding Lack of Board-Level Oversight and Director Independence

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In Marchand v. Barnhill et al. (“Blue Bell”),1 the Delaware Supreme Court on June 19 unanimously reversed the dismissal of a shareholder derivative lawsuit against the members of the board of directors and two officers of...more

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Delaware Supreme Court Holds Directors’ Fiduciary Duties Require Monitoring Mission-Critical Risks

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In 2015, Blue Bell Creameries USA, Inc., a Delaware subchapter S corporation headquartered in Brenham, Texas (Blue Bell), through subsidiaries made and distributed ice cream tainted with listeria bacteria. As a consequence,...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

Delaware Supreme Court Finds Viable Caremark Claim

In Marchand v. Barnhill et al the Delaware Supreme Court overturned the Court of Chancery’s decision to dismiss a complaint asserting a Caremark cause of action for failure to state a claim.  The case involved Blue Bell...more

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Delaware Supreme Court Affirms Dismissal Of Caremark Action For Failure To Plead Bad Faith With Particularity

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On March 3, 2017, the Supreme Court of the State of Delaware affirmed the dismissal of “Caremark” claims for alleged bad-faith failure of oversight brought derivatively by a stockholder against the directors of Qualcomm, Inc....more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

Delaware Dismisses Caremark Claim Against DuPont

The Delaware Court of Chancery recently dismissed a derivative action in Ironworkers District Council of Philadelphia & Vicinity Retirement & Pension Plan v. Andreotti et al. One of the many claims alleged was a Caremark...more

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