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The Corporate Guide: Protecting Emails from Production

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Last week’s Corporate Guide discussed one circumstance — in the context of stockholder litigation — where directors’ and officers’ emails may be requested and produced, a books and records demand under Section 220 of the...more

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Recent Trends in Books and Records Litigation

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Recently, the frequency of stockholder demands to inspect corporate books and records pursuant to Section 220 of the Delaware General Corporation Law has increased. In turn, the case law concerning Section 220 demands is...more

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Responding to Books and Records Demands in an Increasingly Digital World - 3 Key Tips

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Stockholder “books and records” requests have become increasingly prevalent in the past decade. These requests can be a used as tools by activist investors to gather information to support demands for corporate change or a...more

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Emails and Texts Could Constitute Corporate Books and Records

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Directors, corporate secretaries and company counsel must be mindful of good corporate housekeeping practices involving the maintenance of corporate books and records. Earlier this year, a handful of Delaware court opinions...more

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Supreme Court Provides Further Guidance on Demands to Inspect Electronic Communications

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Recently, Delaware corporations faced with demands for books and records under 8 Del. C. § 220 have increasingly been forced to contend with demands for electronic communications, such as emails. Historically, the Delaware...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Delaware Supreme Court Orders Company To Turn Over Emails To Stockholder In Response To Books And Records Request

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The Delaware Supreme Court recently ordered a corporation to produce emails and other electronic documents in response to a stockholder’s request to inspect books and records under Section 220 of the Delaware General...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Delaware Court Provides Guidance for Books and Records Demands to Limit Producing Electronic Data to Stockholders

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Section 220 of the Delaware General Corporation Law allows stockholders to inspect various books and records of a company upon showing a proper purpose for the request, among other statutory requirements. In this electronic...more

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Delaware Supreme Court Clarifies When Emails Should Be Produced

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On January 29, 2019, the Delaware Supreme Court provided guidance to the Court of Chancery regarding the scope of a stockholder’s inspection rights under Section 220 of the Delaware General Corporation Law or similar LLC or...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Delaware Law Updates: Ignoring Corporate Formalities Could Expose Board Of Directors’ Emails To Stockholders

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Companies that do not follow corporate formalities and accepted bookkeeping practices may be more susceptible to an expansion of the types or forms of records they have to make available—namely email communications— to...more

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Delaware Supreme Court Addresses Emails and Jurisdictional Use Conditions in Books and Records Actions

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KT4 Partners LLC v. Palantir Technologies Inc., No. 281, 2018 (Del. Jan. 29, 2019) (Strine, Chief Justice). Two prevailing questions for books and records inspections under Section 220 of the Delaware General Corporation...more

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Delaware Courts Address Production of Emails and Other Electronically Stored Information In Response to Section 220 Demands

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UPDATE:  On August 5, 2020, the Delaware Supreme Court summarily affirmed the judgment of the Court of Chancery “on the basis of and for the reasons stated in its January 25, 2019 opinion.” Section 220 of the Delaware...more

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Two Recent Delaware Decisions Further Illustrate The Scope Of Section 220 Discovery

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Two recent Delaware Court of Chancery decisions demonstrate that narrow statutory standards continue to govern access to corporate books and records pursuant to Section 220 of the Delaware General Corporation Law. In the...more

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Delaware's Court of Chancery Clarifies Scope of Inspection Under Books and Records Demands

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In Amalgamated Bank v. Yahoo!, Inc., C.A. No. 10774-VCL (Del. Ch. Feb. 2, 2016), Plaintiff Amalgamated Bank’s Section 220 books and records demand sought, among other things, the emails of certain Yahoo officers and...more

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