Legal Opinion
Zapata Corp. v. Maldonado
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided May 13, 1981PublishedCited by 319 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
QUILLEN, Justice:
This is an interlocutory appeal from an order entered on April 9,1980, by the Court of Chancery denying appellant-defendant Zapata Corporation’s (Zapata) alternative motions to dismiss the complaint or for summary judgment. The issue to be addressed has reached this Court by way of a rather convoluted path.
In June, 1975, William Maldonado, a stockholder of Zapata, instituted a derivative action in the Court of Chancery on behalf of Zapata against ten officers and/or directors of Zapata, alleging, essentially, breaches of fiduciary duty. Maldonado did not first demand that the…
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