Litigation

Legislative meeting on Courts of Chancery meets Wednesday
The Legislative Subcommittee to Study the Benefits, Costs and Feasibility of the Imprementation of Courts of Chancery in Nevada will hold a meeting on Wednesday May 28. Details and the agenda are available here.

Chancery Refuses to Defer to Bankruptcy Stay in Ordering Shareholder Meeting
 In Fogel v. U.S. Energy Systems, Inc., 2008 WL 151857 (Del. Ch., Jan. 15, 2007), read opinion here, the Delaware Chancery Court refused to defer its decision to order a shareholders' meeting pursuant to DGCL 211, despite the "automatic stay" provision of Section 362 of Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code...

Fogel v. U.S. Energy Systems Inc: "Improperly Convened" Meetings And The Blasius Standard In Delaware
In Fogel v. U.S. Energy Systems Inc., No. 3271-CC, 2008 WL 151857 (Del. Ch. Dec. 13, 2007 ) the Delaware Chancery Court decided that a confrontation between the CEO and directors was not a “meeting” under section 141 of Delaware’s General Corporation Law...

Delaware Chancery Court: Automatic Stay Does Not Apply To Order Compelling Shareholder Meeting
The Delaware Corporate and Commercial Litigation Blog discusses the case of Fogel v. U.S. Energy Systems, Inc., 2008 WL 151857 (Del. Ch., Jan. 15, 2007) - The Chancery Court cited to a decision of the U...

Supreme Court Upholds Chancery Decision that Stock Cancellation Not Effective
In Reddy v. MKBS Company Limited, (Del. Supr., March 3, 2008), read opinion here, the Delaware Supreme Court  (yesterday) affirmed a Chancery Court decision, summarized here,  finding that an attempt to "cancel" shares, whether via the certificates representing those shares or the shares themselves, did not comply with statutory and related requirements...

Article on Defective Issuance of Shares Under Delaware Law
Delaware lawyers Seth Barrett Tillman and Stephen Bigler recently wrote a scholarly article that addresses the issue under Delaware law of stock issuances that may suffer from some infirmity such as lack of complete compliance with all necessary corporate formalities, and whether such a stock issuance is void or merely voidable...

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