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Senior ARONSON, Et Al., Defendants Below, Appellants, v. Harry LEWIS, Plaintiff Below, Appellee

1984-03-01 · Supreme Court of Delaware · United States

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2026-07-23Samvit Ramadurgam v. Destiny XYZ Inc.Court of Chancery of Delaware 1999-03-16EMERALD PARTNERS, a New Jersey Limited Partnership, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. Ronald P. BERLIN, David L. Florence, Rex A. Sebastian, Theodore H. Strauss and Hall Financial Group, Ltd., a Texas Limited Partnership, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1997-09-18Donald H. LOUDON, Jr., Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. ARCHER-DANIELS-MIDLAND COMPANY, Dwayne O. Andreas, Michael D. Andreas, Lowell W. Andreas, Martin L. Andreas, Ralph Bruce, John H. Daniels, H.D. Hale, John K. Vanier, M. Brian Mulroney, Marguaritta Rockefeller, James R. Randall, O. Glenn Webb, F. Ross Johnson, Shreve M. Archer, Jr., Ray A. Goldberg, Robert S. Strauss, and Gaylord O. Coan, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1995-07-17CINERAMA, INC., a New York Corporation, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. TECHNICOLOR, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Morton Kamerman, Arthur N. Ryan, Fred R. Sullivan, Guy M. Bjorkman, George Lewis, Jonathan T. Isham, MacAndrews & Forbes Group, Incorporated, a Delaware Corporation, MacAnfor Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, and Ronald O. Perelman, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1995-01-11UNITRIN, INC., James E. Annable, Reuben L. Hedlund, Jerrold v. Jerome, George A. Roberts, Fayez S. Sarofim, Henry E. Singleton and Richard C. Vie, Defendants Below, Appellants, v. AMERICAN GENERAL CORP., Plaintiff Below, Appellee. in Re UNITRIN, INC. Shareholders LitigationSupreme Court of Delaware 1994-02-04PARAMOUNT COMMUNICATIONS INC., Viacom Inc., Martin S. Davis, Grace J. Fippinger, Irving R. Fischer, Benjamin L. Hooks, Franz J. Lutolf, James A. Pattison, Irwin Schloss, Samuel J. Silber-Man, Lawrence M. Small, and George Weissman, Defendants Below, Appellants, v. QVC NETWORK INC., Plaintiff Below, Appellee. in Re PARAMOUNT COMMUNICATIONS INC. SHAREHOLDERS’ LITIGATIONSupreme Court of Delaware 1993-12-23Steven M. RALES, Mitchell P. Rales, and John Doe 1-10, Defendants Below, Appellants, and Easco Hand Tools, Inc. and Danaher Corporation, Nominal Defendants Below, Appellants, v. Alfred BLASBAND, Derivatively and on Behalf of Easco Hand Tools, Inc. and Danaher Corporation, Plaintiff Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1993-06-22Allen NIXON, Harry Matlock, Roy Jolly, Floyd Schisler, Doyle Roach, Doyle Gilliam, John Milbourn, Tony Futrell, Edward Wiseman, Harold Bouland and E.C. Barton & Company, a Delaware Corporation, Defendants Below, Appellants, v. Guy C. BLACKWELL, Guy C. Blackwell, III, Carolyn Mai Blackwell, Nancy Ann Blackwell, Trustee for Guy C. Blackwell, III, Nancy Ann Blackwell, Trustee for Carolyn Mai Blackwell, Mai Banks Blackwell, Executrix of the Estate of G. Lawrence Blackwell, Lea Ellen Blackwell, O.G. Blackwell, III, Dr. O.G. Blackwell, Custodian for Claire Blackwell, Laurie Blackwell Black, Janet Porter Blackwell, Dr. O.G. Blackwell, Thomas M. Bizzell, Trustee for Nancy Jane Lauck and Amanda Ann Lauck and St. Timothy Episcopal Church, Plaintiffs Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1992-04-09W.B. Dixon STROUD, Jr., Morris W. Stroud, Agnes S. Peele, and Anne S. Bradford, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. J. Peter GRACE, Dr. George C. Dacey, Dr. T.J. Malone, Roger Milliken, H.W. Jockers, Dr. H. Keith Brodie, Minot K. Milliken, F.G. Rogers, Rene C. McPherson, Gerrish H. Milliken, and Milliken & Company, a Delaware Corporation, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1990-03-09PARAMOUNT COMMUNICATIONS, INC. and KDS Acquisitions Corp., Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. TIME INCORPORATED, T.W. Sub, James F. Bere, Henry C. Goodrich, Clifford J. Grum, Matina S. Horner, David T. Kearns, Gerald M. Levin, J. Richard Munro, N.J. Nicholas, Jr., Donald S. Perkins, Clifton R. Wharton, Michael D. Finkelstein, Henry Luce III, Jason D. McManus, John R. Opel, and Warner Communications, Inc., Defendants Below, Appellees; LITERARY PARTNERS, L.P., Cablevision Media Partners, L.P., and A. Jerrold Perenchio, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. TIME INCORPORATED, TW Sub Inc., James F. Bere, Michael D. Dingman, Edward S. Finkelstein, Matina S. Horner, David T. Kearns, Gerald M. Levin, Henry Luce III, Jason D. McManus, J. Richard Munro, N.J. Nicholas, Jr., John R. Opel, Donald S. Perkins, and Warner Communications, Inc., Defendants Below, Appellees. in Re TIME INCORPORATED SHAREHOLDER LITIGATIONSupreme Court of Delaware 1989-12-22Edith CITRON, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. FAIRCHILD CAMERA AND INSTRUMENT CORPORATION, Wilfred J. Corrigan, William C. Franklin, William A. Stenson, Walter Burke, Alvin C. Rice, C. Lester Hogan, Albert Bowers, Walter J.P. Curley, Schlumberger (California) Inc., Schlumberger Technology Corporation and Schlumberger Limited, Defendants Below, AppellantsSupreme Court of Delaware 1989-07-03TANDYCRAFTS, INC., R.E. Cox, III, Roger A. Dickinson, Kenneth L. Gregson, William H. Michero, Joe K. Pace, Robert Schutts, and John A. Wilson, Defendants Below, Appellants, v. INITIO PARTNERS, Plaintiff Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1989-05-03MILLS ACQUISITION CO., a Delaware Corporation, Et Al., Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. MACMILLAN, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Et Al., Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1988-04-04SUMMA CORPORATION and William R. Lummis, Delaware Ancillary Administrator of the Estate of Howard R. Hughes, Defendants Below, Appellants, v. TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC., Plaintiff Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1988-03-15David GROBOW, Shelly Kostrinsky, Joyce L. Thomas, Drexel Home, Inc., Adelle Brody, Jerrold Schaffer, Phyllis Greenfogel, Martin Besen, Joseph Lieberman, Blanche Silverberg, Irving Kas, Beatrice L. Russ and Bronson Murray, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. H. Ross PEROT, Roger B. Smith, F. James McDonald, Howard H. Kehrl, F. Alan Smith, Donald J. Atwood, Lloyd E. Reuss, Robert C. Stempel, Thomas A. Murphy, Anne L. Armstrong, Catherine B. Cleary, James H. Evans, Walter A. Fallon, Charles T. Fisher III, Marvin L. Goldberger, John J. Horan, Edmund T. Pratt, Jr., James D. Robinson III, John G. Smale, Leon H. Sullivan, Dennis Weatherstone, Thomas H. Wyman, Morton H. Meyerson, J. Thomas Walter, Jr., and William K. Gayden, Defendants Below, Appellees, and General Motors Corporation and Electronic Data Systems Corporation, Nominal Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1987-11-18IVANHOE PARTNERS, a Texas General Partnership, Et Al., Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. NEWMONT MINING CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation, Et Al., Defendants Below, Appellees. in Re NEWMONT MINING CORP. SHAREHOLDERS LITIGATIONSupreme Court of Delaware 1986-09-18AC ACQUISITIONS CORP., Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc., Gruss Petroleum Corp., and Gruss Partners, Plaintiffs, v. ANDERSON, CLAYTON & CO., F.F. Avery, G. William Miller, Richard J v. Johnson, S.M. McAshan, Jr., T.J. Barlow, W. Fenton Guinee, Jr., John L. Fichter, Benjamin M. Baker, Jr., Charles L. Blackburn, John T. Cater, Ralph L. Cobb, Jennings F. Futch, John B. Powell, Jr., D.M. Buchanan, R.F. Harris, and W.W. Vann, DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1986-03-13REVLON, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Michel C. Bergerac, Simon Aldewereld, Sander P. Alexander, Jay I. Bennett, Irving J. Bottner, Jacob Burns, Lewis L. Glucksman, John Loudon, Aileen Mehle, Samuel L. Simmons, Ian R. Wilson, Paul P. Woolard, Ezra K. Zilkha, Forstmann Little & Co., a New York Limited Partnership, and Forstmann Little & Co. Subordinated Debt and Equity Management Buyout Partnership-II, a New York Limited Partnership, Defendants Below, Appellants, v. MacANDREWS & FORBES HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Plaintiff Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1986-03-10William J. POLK, Jr., Et Al., Objectors Below, Appellants, Miriam Gelband and Leo Kayser, III, Objectors Below, Appellants, Seagoing Uniform Corporation, Objector Below, Appellant, Mollie Pin, Objector Below, Appellant, Mandel, Lipton & Stevenson Profit Sharing Plan, Objector Below, Appellant, v. Howard GOOD, Et Al., Plaintiffs Below, Appellees, and Texaco, Inc., Et Al., Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1985-11-20John A. MORAN and the Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation, Plaintiffs Below-Appellants, and Gretl Golter, Individually and in a Derivative Capacity, Plaintiff Intervenor Below-Appellant, v. HOUSEHOLD INTERNATIONAL, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Donald C. Clark, Thomas D. Flynn, Mary Johnston Evans, William D. Hendry, Joseph W. James, Mitchell P. Kartalia, Gordon P. Osler, Arthur E. Rasmussen, George W. Rauch, James M. Tait, Miller Upton, Bernard F. Brennan and Gary G. Dillon, Defendants Below-AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1985-06-10UNOCAL CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. MESA PETROLEUM CO., a Delaware Corporation, Mesa Asset Co., a Delaware Corporation, Mesa Eastern, Inc., a Delaware Corporation and Mesa Partners II, a Texas Partnership, Plaintiffs Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1985-05-09Emanuel G. ROSENBLATT, Joseph Gruss, Carolyn Skelly Burford, Et Al., Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. GETTY OIL COMPANY, Defendant Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1985-03-14Alden SMITH and John W. Gosselin, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. Jerome W. VAN GORKOM, Bruce S. Chelberg, William B. Johnson, Joseph B. Lanterman, Graham J. Morgan, Thomas P. O’Boyle, W. Allen Wallis, Sidney H. Bonser, William D. Browder, Trans Union Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, Marmon Group, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, GL Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, and New T. Co., a Delaware Corporation, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1985-01-29John A. MORAN and the Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation, Plaintiffs, and Gretl Golter, Individually and in a Derivative Capacity, Plaintiff Intervenor, v. HOUSEHOLD INTERNATIONAL, INC. a Delaware Corporation, Donald C. Clark, Thomas D. Flynn, Mary Johnston Evans, William D. Hendry, Joseph W. James, Mitchell P. Kartalia, Gordon P. Osler, Arthur E. Rasmussen, George W. Rauch, James M. Tait, Miller Upton, Bernard F. Brennan and Gary G. Dillon, Defendants; HOUSEHOLD INTERNATIONAL, INC., Counterclaim Plaintiff, v. John A. MORAN, Charles H. Dyson and the Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation, Counterclaim DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1984-06-21Bernard POGOSTIN, Ann Brown and Irwin J. Newman, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. W. Thomas RICE, Eliot H. Stein, Fred Sullivan, A. Lightfoot Walker, Arthur C. Babson, Francis L. Cappaert, Edwin I. Hatch, Peter C. Huang, George T. Scharfenberger, Joe E. Lonning, Daniel E. Lyons, Stephen E. O’Neil, Eben W. Pyne, John H. Washburn and City Investing Company, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware

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1981-05-13ZAPATA CORPORATION, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. William MALDONADO, Plaintiff Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1977-05-10TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC., Plaintiff, v. SUMMA CORPORATION and William R. Lummis, Delaware Ancillary Administrator of the Estate of Howard R. Hughes, DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1974-02-07Louis S. GIMBEL, III, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. the SIGNAL COMPANIES, INC., Et Al., Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1974-01-10Louis S. GIMBEL, III, Plaintiff, v. the SIGNAL COMPANIES, INC., Et Al., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1972-11-29PENN MART REALTY COMPANY, a Corporation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Plaintiff, v. Isadora A. BECKER Et Al., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1971-10-22Abraham KAPLAN, Administrator, C. T. A. of the Estate of Nat Gluck, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. CENTEX CORPORATION Et Al., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1971-10-20John PUMA, Plaintiff, v. J. Willard MARRIOTT Et Al., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1971-06-18SINCLAIR OIL CORPORATION, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. Francis S. LEVIEN, Plaintiff Below, AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1970-06-01GETTY OIL COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. SKELLY OIL COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation, Defendant Below, Appellee; SKELLY OIL COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation, Defendant Below, Appellee and Cross-Appellant, v. GETTY OIL COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation, Plaintiff Below, Appellant and Cross-AppelleeSupreme Court of Delaware 1969-12-23Francis S. LEVIEN, Plaintiff, v. SINCLAIR OIL CORPORATION and Sinclair Venezuelan Oil Company, DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1968-12-24DAVID J. GREENE AND CO. Et Al., Plaintiffs, v. DUNHILL INTERNATIONAL, INC., and A. G. Spalding & Bros., Inc., DefendantsCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1966-06-03Esther R. Warshaw, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, vs. W. K. Calhoun, Charles F. Curry, F. W. Duboc, Ray B. Duboc, Robert M. Duboc, W. L. Gench, John Latshaw, K. H. Mead, C. C. Otto, Western Casualty and Surety Company, a Kansas Corporation, and the Western Insurance Securities Company, a Delaware Corporation, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1964-03-17Cheff v. MathesSupreme Court of Delaware 1963-04-19Moskowitz v. BantrellSupreme Court of Delaware 1963-01-24Graham v. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing CompanySupreme Court of Delaware 1961-05-25Lutz v. BoasCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1960-02-18Kors v. CareyCourt of Chancery of Delaware 1960-02-11Beard v. ElsterSupreme Court of Delaware 1959-10-28Lieberman v. BeckerSupreme Court of Delaware 1956-12-21Helen E. Cottrell, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, vs. the Pawcatuck Company (Formerly the C. B. Cottrell & Sons Company), a Delaware Corporation (Known as the Old Company), Harris-Seybold Company, a Delaware Corporation, Donald C. Cottrell, Ridley Watts, Arthur M. Cottrell, Jr., Charles P. Cottrell, Jr., and the Cottrell Company, a Delaware Corporation (Known as the New Company), Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1952-11-18Robert D. Sterling, Ruth L. Sterling, Edward Sterling, Oliver Sterling, Elizabeth Parks Sterling, Realty Investing Company, Cathedral Estates, Inc., Charles Kimmelman, Milton A. Kimmelman, Allenhurst Realties, Inc., Rhinelander Improvement Co., Inc., Helen Kimmelman, Ida Kimmelman, Alma S. Porter and Ruth S. Frost, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, vs. Mayflower Hotel Corporation and Hilton Hotels Corporation, Each a Corporation of the State of Delaware, Defendants Below, AppelleesSupreme Court of Delaware 1952-11-05Fidanque v. American Maracaibo Co.Court of Chancery of Delaware

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