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Delaware's Problem Isn't That It's Pro-Plaintiff And Anti-Business, It's That Its Corporate Law Is Too Labyrinthine And Unpredictable

Professor Stephen Bainbridge recently took note of a draft essay by Yale Law School Professor Jonathan R. Macey, Delaware Law Mid-Century: Far From Perfect but Probably Not Leaving for Las Vegas.  Professor Macey posits that while Delaware has a...

Another Public Company Announces Plan To Decamp To Nevada - Is Delaware's Dam About To Burst?

The Delaware dam may not be bursting but there are signs that it is leaking.  In an earlier post, I observed that despite all of the talk, I had not found many recent examples of publicly traded companies reincorporating in Nevada. Recently, I...

Why Haven't More Corporations Reincorporated In Nevada?

A great deal of attention, including in this blog, has been focused Delaware corporations reincorporating in Nevada and other states.  See, e.g., Reasons To Quit Delaware Are Gettin' Bigger Each Day and Are Delaware Corporations "Rolling Down Hill,...

Vice Chancellor Laster Proposes Recusal, But Is He Correct?

Several recent posts have addressed themselves to the litigation challenging the proposed redomestications of TripAdvisor, Inc. and  Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings, Inc. from Delaware into Nevada.  Palkon v. Maffei, 2024 WL 678204 (Del. Ch. Feb. 20,...

What Are The Damages?

In yesterday's post, I discussed Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster's recent ruling in Palkon v. Maffeii, 2024 WL 678204 (Del. Ch. Feb. 20, 2024).  The case concerned a challenge to the proposed redomestications of TripAdvisor, Inc. and  Liberty...

Supreme Court Issues Delaware A Reprieve Pennsylvania Railroad Case

Last November, I questioned whether the Supreme Court's decision in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. would endanger Delaware's corporate hegemony.  The issue in that case was the constitutionality of Pennsylvania's deemed consent statute with...

Delaware's Definition Of "Officer" Fails To Define "Officer"

In yesterday's post, I posited that Delaware does and doesn't define "officer".   For the proposition that Delaware defines the term, I cited Delaware's deemed consent statute - 10 Del. Code § 3114. That statute, however, only appears to furnish a...

Is This The Case That Ate Delaware Corporate Law?

In a recent feature published by the Washington Legal Foundation, UCLA Professor Stephen Bainbridge casts a jaundiced eye toward Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster's recent ruling in In re McDonald's Corp. Stockholder Deriv. Litig., C.A. No....

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