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Wetzel v. Blades

Supreme Court of Delaware
Dec 9, 2011
C.A. No. 782, 2010 (Del. Dec. 9, 2011)

Summary

determining that transfers of stock fundamentally based on a purported stock split were invalid because the board failed to follow the DGCL's charter amendment procedure, which requires a written instrument evidencing board approval of the amendment

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Opinion

C.A. No. 782, 2010.

Submitted: November 30, 2011.

Decided: December 9, 2011.

Court Below: Court of Chancery for the State of Delaware, No. 5317.

Before STEELE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND, BERGER, JACOBS and RIDGELY, Justices, constituting the Court en Banc.


ORDER


This 9th day of December 2011, upon consideration of the briefs of the parties, and their contentions in oral argument, it appears to the Court that the judgment of the Court of Chancery should be affirmed on the basis of and for the reasons set forth in its decision dated November 24, 2010.

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the judgment of the Court of Chancery is AFFIRMED.


Summaries of

Wetzel v. Blades

Supreme Court of Delaware
Dec 9, 2011
C.A. No. 782, 2010 (Del. Dec. 9, 2011)

determining that transfers of stock fundamentally based on a purported stock split were invalid because the board failed to follow the DGCL's charter amendment procedure, which requires a written instrument evidencing board approval of the amendment

Summary of this case from Boris v. Schaheen
Case details for

Wetzel v. Blades

Case Details

Full title:RICHARD D. WETZEL, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. RUSTY BLADES, Plaintiff…

Court:Supreme Court of Delaware

Date published: Dec 9, 2011

Citations

C.A. No. 782, 2010 (Del. Dec. 9, 2011)

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