In Re Tyson Foods, Inc. Consolidated Shareholder Litigation

OPINION

CHANDLER, Chancellor.

Before me is a motion to dismiss a lengthy and complex complaint that includes almost a decade’s worth of challenged transactions. Plaintiffs level charges, more or less indiscriminately, at eighteen individual defendants, one partnership, and the company itself as a nominal defendant. Several allegations are leveled at clearly inappropriate directors or challenge actions well beyond the statute of limitations. Over six hundred pages of additional documents and briefs have been filed by one party or another in order to provide context for my decision. Although I do…