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	<title>The Institute of Delaware Corporate &#38; Business Law</title>
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		<title>Municipal Bankruptcy: Understanding the Limited Powers of the Judiciary</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Hamermesh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From two students at our Harrisburg campus (Julia Skinner (Class of 2013) and Corey Dietz (Class of 2014)), the following post presents some insights into uncertainty about the operation of municipal bankruptcy proceedings: Municipalities contemplating filing for bankruptcy are met with resistance because of the fear of rogue judges taking over a city’s finances and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>25th Annual Ruby R. Vale Interschool Corporate Moot Court Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Chapple</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Benjamin P. Chapple Widener&#8217;s Institute of Corporate &#38; Business Law, in partnership with the law school&#8217;s Moot Court Honor Society, hosted the 25th Annual Ruby R. Vale Interschool Corporate Moot Court Competition.  This year&#8217;s competition included a geographically diverse set of competitors, hailing from twenty different law schools.  The competition lasted four days, with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kallick v. SandRidge:  Proxy Put Preliminarily Panned</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Hamermesh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chancellor Strine’s March 8, 2013 opinion in Kallick v. SandRidge Energy is a welcome reaffirmation and clarification of director duties in relation to takeover deterrents built into otherwise customary commercial transactions—in this case, a put right (the “Proxy Put”) in the company’s credit agreements that would require the company to refinance debt in the event of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SCOTUS Concludes Proof of Materiality is Not a Prerequisite to Certification of a Securities-Fraud Action Alleging Violations of §10(b) and Rule 10(b)–5</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Chapple</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Benjamin P. Chapple On February 27, 2013, the United States Supreme Court, in Amgen, Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, a 6-3 decision, concluded that proof of materiality is not a prerequisite to certification of a securities-fraud action that alleges violations of §10(b) or Rule 10b–5.  Below is a summary of the Court&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Benefits of the Earned Income Tax Credit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Hamermesh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our faculty member Christine Allie published a nice commentary in the Wilmington News-Journal over the weekend on the public benefits of the Earned Income Tax Credit.]]></description>
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		<title>Whistleblower Speaker Series is Off and Running</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Hamermesh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve embarked on an interesting new course here: a series of classes led by experts in a variety of aspects of whistleblowing. Our first class featured Jordan Thomas, currently at Labaton Sucharow in New York, and formerly the Assistant Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. Jordan led the students through a terrific exercise in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multi-Forum Litigation and Rules Governing Choice of Forum in Corporate Representative Litigation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Hamermesh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post describes the January 2013 working paper by Chancellor Leo E. Strine, Jr., Prof. Lawrence A. Hamermesh, and Matthew Jennejohn on the subject of multi-forum litigation and forum choice rules. The post&#8217;s summary of the paper is a little more illuminating than the paper&#8217;s abstract, and a lot shorter than the paper itself.]]></description>
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		<title>Freedman vs. Novell &#8212; The Latest Adventures of the Business Judgment Rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Hamermesh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two seemingly disparate recent Delaware court opinions provide an intriguing contrast in the approach to judicial review of fiduciary conduct. In its very brief opinion of January 14, 2013 in Freedman v. Adams,, et al, the Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal of a claim that the directors of XTO Energy breached their fiduciary duty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celera:  New Uncertainty in Settlement in Class Action Deal Litigation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 20:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Chapple</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Lawrence A. Hamermesh The Delaware Supreme Court handed down an interesting decision on December 27, 2012 in the Celera merger class action litigation.  The underlying litigation was a challenge to a squeeze-out tender offer and merger, and involved some hot button issues (“don’t ask/don’t waive” standstill agreements and a top-up option), but the opinion wasn’t really about them. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court of Chancery Preliminarily Enjoins “Don’t Ask, Don’t Waive” Standstill Provision</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 12:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Hamermesh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Submitted by Prof. Paul L. Regan In a telephonic ruling announced earlier this week in In re Complete Genomics, Inc. Shareholder Litigation, Dec. Ch., Consol. C.A. No. 7888-VCL (Nov. 27, 2012), Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster preliminarily enjoined Complete Genomics, Inc. from enforcing a standstill agreement containing a potentially problematic “don’t ask, don’t waive” provision. [...]]]></description>
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