by Touch Stone Publishers | Sep 18, 2026
Delaware Court of Chancery, August 28, 2026, analyzed in a Sidley Austin client update published September 17: in ATG Capital Opportunities Fund LP v. Lane, Vice Chancellor Lori Will had two written records of the same Empery Digital board meetings in front of her....
by Touch Stone Publishers | Aug 27, 2026
On August 13, 2026, the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed derivative claims against Boeing’s current and former directors in In re The Boeing Co. Derivative Litigation (C.A. No. 2024-1210-MTZ). The case arose from the January 2024 midair door plug failure on...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jul 7, 2026
What Delaware, Brussels, and the Proxy Advisors Now Treat as the Oversight Failure, and the Documents That Close It Before August 2 Approving an AI strategy is not the same as governing it. In 2026 the distance between those two acts stopped being a matter of...
by Touch Stone Publishers | May 19, 2026
Executive Summary Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery has ruled that a board which approves a major asset transaction and then stands silent while the execution plan fails has crossed from delegation into abdication, a clear breach of...
by Touch Stone Publishers | May 13, 2026
When Delegation Becomes Abdication Chancery confirms: outside directors who rubber-stamp a fundamental transaction and then go silent face personal liability, even when they are technically independent. Executive Summary In YWCA of Rochester and Monroe County v....